Ernst Jünger.
 
I feel like I've found gold. I bought and am reading his work of prose, The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios.
He was German, lived to 102. This book is short pieces. VERY thought provoking... very good.
Jünger fought in both world wars. Was apparently protected by Hitler because some of the stuff he wrote would have made most people disappear and in fact, from what I've read of him, Goebbells did try to have him arrested because of a thinly veiled insulting caricature of Goebbells and others. He declined a couple of high positions in the National Socialist government and refused to work with Goebbells. He re-wrote this book in 1938, it was originally written in 1929, IIRC. I look forward to reading On The Marble Cliffs and his wartime diaries.
 
I see that not many of his books are in English. Hopefully more will be translated. So far this book seems enlightened. I'm sure there is some skeletons somewhere in his closet, his being a captain in the Wehrmacht in the west, but so far... nothing but wonder in his writing. He later met with and "dosed" with Albert Hofmann, that must have been a trip!
 
So far I recommend this book!

That's a new author for me. The book has only three reviews on Amazon, but they're all five stars. One of the reviewers says that it's a challenging book to read and that you have to pay attention to every detail. If that's the case, I like the idea that it's in small chunks.