Quotes by : Peter Sloterdijk

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It....

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

Give up your attachment to comfortable ways of living - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'),....

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

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

We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture....

The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to....

In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe....

Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies one catches it through unprotected....

The history of the own that is grasped on too small a scale and the foreign that is treated too badly....