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  • 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 (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.23, John Wiley & Sons
  • 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 sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.

    Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
  • 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.

    "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.
  • Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

    Art   Garden   Culture  
    Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.20, John Wiley & Sons
  • How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

  • 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.

    Reading   Writing   Long  
    Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.443, John Wiley & Sons
  • The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.

    "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.
  • Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.

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