Peter Sloterdijk

“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy;…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The notion that property is the means to all other means was ruled out by the new radicals. The deep seated ressentiment…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise everything and everyone…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Vitality, understood both somatically and mentally, is itself the medium that contains a gradient between more and less. It therefore contains the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“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

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

— Peter Sloterdijk

“What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Viewed in this light, life itself appears as a dynamics of integration that is equipped with auto-therapeutic or 'endo-clinical' competencies and refers…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of…

— 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…

— 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…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Let me repeat: the stakes are high. We must confront one of the most massive pseudo-evidences in recent intellectual history: the belief,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

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

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Give up your attachment to comfortable ways of living - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'), prove that you are…

— Peter Sloterdijk

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

— Peter Sloterdijk

As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project.…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“I receive the reward for my willingness to participate in the object-subject reversal in the form of a private illumination - in…

— Peter Sloterdijk

In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“...only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“As a system of hybrid communicating vessels, the human interior consists of paradoxical or autogenous hollow bodies that are at once tight…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion',…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on…

— Peter Sloterdijk