Peter Sloterdijk

“In the wake of his new division of ascetic opinion, Nietzsche not only stumbles upon the fundamental meaning of the practising life…

— Peter Sloterdijk

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

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The novelty of the new, as noted earlier, stems from the unfolding of the known into larger, brighter, more richly contoured surfaces.…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of explicitness, one can say without fear…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“But if man genuinely produces man, it is precisely not through work and it's concrete results, not even the 'work on oneself'…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

— Peter Sloterdijk

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how…

— 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…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the edge of conventional logic.”

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Clinically speaking, hysteria is - not only among the religious - the ability to somatize figures of speech; from a philosophical perspective,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The spaces that humans allow to contain them have their own history - albeit a history that has never been told, and…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The hero of the following account, Homo immunologicus, who must give his life, with all its dangers and surfeits, a symbolic framework,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort.…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“From the perspective of the radicals, the habitus basis of human existence is, as a whole, no more than a spiritually worthless…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-traumatic cost. Only such…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The lively thought-image of foam serves to recover the premetaphysical pluralism of world-inventions postmetaphysically. It helps us to enter the element of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“When everything has become the center, there is no longer any valid center; when everything is transmitting, the allegedly central transmitter is…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“It is not only the weary Homo faber, who objectifies the world in the 'doing' mode, who must vacate his place on…

— Peter Sloterdijk