Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.

- Peter Sloterdijk

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 s…

- Peter Sloterdijk

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

- Peter Sloterdijk

An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for tru…

- Peter Sloterdijk

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

- Peter Sloterdijk

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 …

- 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 sole exception …

- 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