The Way of the Ascetics

“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in a diction…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In his differentiation between asceticisms, Nietzsche posited a clear divide between the priestly varieties on the one side, illuminated by his vicious gaze, and…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“There is no 'eugenics' in Nietzsche - despite occasional references to 'breeding'- at least no more than is implicit in the recommendation to choose…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition from the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of those who…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to make something,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“You can be a bad experiencer and still be an overly mature person.”

— Abhaidev