Sloterdijk Peter Quotes

#1. 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 idea: that it is the fate of Europeans to develop life and forms of life according to and alongside the Christian definitions of life and forms of life.

Peter Sloterdijk

#2. Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.

Peter Sloterdijk

#3. It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

Jim Cooper

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

Peter Sloterdijk

#5. Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer.

Peter Sloterdijk

#6. As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

Peter Sloterdijk

#7. In the wall-less house of sounds, humans became the animals that come together by listening. Whatever else they might be, they are sonospheric communards.

Peter Sloterdijk

#8. 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 Enlightenment are likewise meant to burn what they worshipped and worship what they burned.

Peter Sloterdijk

#9. Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion', it can only manifest itself as increasing explicitness.

Peter Sloterdijk

#10. Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies; one catches it through unprotected thought intercourse with the stirred-up concept of the infinite.

Peter Sloterdijk

#11. Cancerous tissues and cancerous issues should be sorted, well in time.

Piyush Kaviraj

#12. Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess

Leo Tolstoy

#13. We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

Peter Sloterdijk

#14. Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.

Peter Sloterdijk

#15. It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked in it (inficere), and entirely transformed by it.

Peter Sloterdijk

#16. History is not a suicide note
it is a record of our survival.

Jeanette Winterson

#17. Consequently, immune systems at this level can be defined a priori as embodied expectations of injury and the corresponding programmes of protection and repair.

Peter Sloterdijk

#18. He was much interested in all family activities, and was so often tripped over that they named him after Ghologhosh, the god of small curses. Not

Sharyn November

#19. An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.

Peter Sloterdijk

#20. I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind

Amy Tan

#21. In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

Henry Louis Gates

#22. The disciple of philosophy must present itself, first as a way of thinking and then as a way of life.

Peter Sloterdijk

#23. Being-'subject' means taking up a position from which an actor can make the transition from theory to practice. This transition usually takes place once an actor has found the motive that liberates them from hesitation and disinhibits them for action.

Peter Sloterdijk