Peter Sloterdijk Quote

The only loyalty to enlightenment consists in disloyalty. This can be partly understood from the position of its heirs, who look back on the heroic times and are necessarily more skeptical of the results. To be an heir always carries a certain status cynicism with it, as is well known from stories about the inheritance of family capital.


p. 6 - Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983)


The only loyalty to enlightenment consists in disloyalty. This can be partly understood from the position of its heirs, who look back on the heroic...

The only loyalty to enlightenment consists in disloyalty. This can be partly understood from the position of its heirs, who look back on the heroic...

The only loyalty to enlightenment consists in disloyalty. This can be partly understood from the position of its heirs, who look back on the heroic...

The only loyalty to enlightenment consists in disloyalty. This can be partly understood from the position of its heirs, who look back on the heroic...