--- title: "3 Antiquity Quotes By Peter Sloterdijk" description: "3 Antiquity quotes by Peter Sloterdijk. Plus more from Peter Sloterdijk and more Antiquity sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/peter-sloterdijk-8761_antiquity_the-ascetic-planet-he-sights-is-the-plan_1575137.jpg" --- > [“The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/the-ascetic-planet-he-sights-is-the-planet-of-the-practising-as-a/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/peter-sloterdijk-8761_antiquity_the-ascetic-planet-he-sights-is-the-plan_1575137.jpg) > [“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/the-extension-of-the-moral-historical-perspective-makes-the-meaning/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2df/peter-sloterdijk-8761_antiquity_the-extension-of-the-moral-historical-pe_1622800.jpg) > [“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/his-concept-of-allochrony-initially-introduced-shyly-as-untimeliness/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a91/peter-sloterdijk-8761_ancient_his-concept-of-allochrony-initially-intr_1987770.png) ## Other authors on Antiquity - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-confucius-24951.jpg) Confucius 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/confucius/) ## More by Peter Sloterdijk > [“Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look more closely at the work of deformation that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/cultural-criticism-always-attacks-the-mass-media-i-don-t-think-that/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“A completely different aspect, however, the thoroughly incommensurable one, lies in the imposition of accepting that the torso sees me while I observe it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/a-completely-different-aspect-however-the-thoroughly-incommensurable/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/ventilation-is-the-profound-secret-of-existence/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“In this book, we will naturally be dealing primarily with the manifestations of the third level of immunity. I gather material on the biography…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/in-this-book-we-will-naturally-be-dealing-primarily-with-the/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious battle, today's children of the banalized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/as-in-the-days-of-the-first-merovingian-who-pledged-allegiance-to-the/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/in-his-treatise-on-the-battles-between-the-gods-underlying-ancient/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/it-is-not-sufficient-he-emphasized-to-colour-colorare-the-mind-with/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had to ensure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/what-appears-in-the-former-statue-of-apollo-however-cannot-simply-be/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“This much should be clear by now: the term 'renaissance' can only remain fruitful and demanding as long as it refers to a far-reaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/this-much-should-be-clear-by-now-the-term-renaissance-can-only-remain/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“As the following pages deal with the practising life, they lead - in accordance with their topic - to an expedition into the little-explored…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/as-the-following-pages-deal-with-the-practising-life-they-lead-in/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“Something is indeed returning today - but the conventional wisdom that this is religion making its reappearance is insufficient to satisfy critical inquiries. Nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/something-is-indeed-returning-today-but-the-conventional-wisdom-that/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/here-we-should-quote-especially-those-sections-from-nietzsche-s/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being into message'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/in-his-field-and-with-his-means-rilke-carries-out-an-operation-that/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) > [“This background enables us to understand a fact that is symptomatic of the current phase of saturation: there are countless people who want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/this-background-enables-us-to-understand-a-fact-that-is-symptomatic/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-sloterdijk/nietzsche-s-questions-transcend-but-where-to-ascend-but-to-what/) [Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-sloterdijk/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/peter-sloterdijk/#itemlist", "name": "3 Antiquity Quotes By Peter Sloterdijk", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 have begun to give their existence forms and contents under vertical tensions in countless programmes of effort, some more and some less strictly coded. When Nietzsche speaks of the ascetic planet, it is not because he would rather have been born on a more relaxed star. His antiquity-instinct tells him that every heavenly body worth inhabiting must - correctly understood - be an ascetic planet inhabited by the practising, the aspiring and the virtuosos. What is antiquity for him but the code word for the age in which humans had to become strong enough for a sacred-imperial image of the whole? 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