Author of quotes: Peter Sloterdijk

Probably, Nietzsche was distinguished by theoretical frivolity if he believed that philosophy had the right to make a provocative diagnosis and limit itself to this, without at the same time necessarily thinking about therapy. Only the one who will be able to cope with it when he appears has the right to call a devil by name; to call it by name (be it "will to power", "aggression", etc.) means to recognize its reality, and to recognize its reality means "to unleash".

Primum vivere, deinde philosophari - first to live, then to philosophize.

The higher the publicly proclaimed goals are, the more secret the cynical means are kept.

The consciousness of those in power is the “reflecting plane” that determines where the light of the Enlightenment will go and how it will spread. Thus, in fact, the Enlightenment first of all brings power into a state of "reflection". It reflects in a double sense of the word: it considers itself and reflects the light of the Enlightenment, directing it back.

The tragedy of the old Social Democracy was that of the hundreds of meanings that the formula "knowledge is power and power" has, it understood only a very few. She was chronically unaware of what the knowledge that really gives power was, and what kind of power one had to be to achieve knowledge that expanded power.

In the language of the free masons of the 18th century, obstacles that prevent the spread of the light of knowledge or block it have three names: superstition, error, ignorance. They were also called the three monsters. These monsters were real forces to be reckoned with and which the Enlightenment was about to challenge to defeat them.

Being artificially synthesized, the nationalist mentality is not well tolerated when its narcissistic self-programming is violated. Therefore, the anger of the bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie, which has driven itself into a chauvinistic framework and imagined itself as an elite, turns to the reflexive intellect, which supposedly has such a "corrupting" effect. Resisting this “disintegration” of its pretended naivete, bourgeois ideology embarks on complex maneuvers, and as a result finds itself in positions that force it to come into conflict with its once existing educational version. The cosmopolitan equanimity and universalistic nobility of the Enlightenment act on the political narcissism of the patriots, probably in the same way as a splinter. The "Destruction of Mind" - to use the title of Lukacs' much-quoted work - in bourgeois thinking later than the Enlightenment was deeply rooted in the narcissistic self-affirmation of the bourgeois class self, which was determined to resist the disillusioning force with which it was relentlessly influenced by reflection.

Dancing around the golden calf of identity is the last and majestic neck delight of the anti-Enlightenment. Identity is a magic spell of partly secret, partly explicit conservatism; personal identity, professional identity, national identity, political identity, female identity, male identity, class identity, party identity, etc. - this is what is written on his banners.

The press, railways, social assistance, penicillin - who would ever think to dispute that these are all wonderful innovations in the "garden of man"? However, after all the abominations of the 20th century, arranged with the help of technology - from Verdun to the Gulag, from Auschwitz to Hiroshima - experience does not predispose to any optimism. Historical knowledge and pessimism seem to force one and the same conclusion. And the catastrophes that have not yet occurred, but are already hanging over us, call civilization into question everywhere. At the end of the 20th century, negative futurology is on the crest. “The possibility of the worst has already been taken into account,” it only has to happen.

Where the capacity for reason is not based on self-knowledge achieved with the help of subtle sensitivity, even a very solid argumentation from the field of communication theory cannot convince.

The requirement to make the Reasonable public domain entails a certain policy, pedagogy, propaganda. Thus, the Enlightenment deliberately displaces from its memory the bitter realism of the teachings of the ancient sages, to whom it was perfectly clear that the masses are stupid, and only a few have reason. The modern striving for the elitist has to be masked with democratic phraseology.

Education is a process that occurs over time, one form of evolution.

The atomic Bomb is a true Buddha of the West, perfect, absolutely independent and sovereign machine.