32 Quotes by 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 everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.

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.

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

A philosopher is one who, as an athlete of totality, is laden with the weight of the world. The essence of philosophy as a form of living is philponia – friendship with the entirety of weighty and worth things. The love of wisdom and the love of the weight of the one whole are unified.