If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Vitality, understood both somatically and mentally, is itself the medium that contains a gradient between more and less. It therefore contains the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In his differentiation between asceticisms, Nietzsche posited a clear divide between the priestly varieties on the one side, illuminated by his vicious… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In the wake of his new division of ascetic opinion, Nietzsche not only stumbles upon the fundamental meaning of the practising life… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
![“[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life is to take the minor things seriously. When minor…” quote by Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fe0/peter-sloterdijk-8761_asceticism_nietzsche-s-questions-transcend-but-wher_722999.png)
