"Does not an ingenuous contact with Kantian thinking, with philosophical thinking in general, contain the risk of expo…"

"Our thinking is becoming much more morose than precise. … Capacity of thought does not keep pace with what is problem…"

"Our lethargic modernity certainly knows how to “think historically,” but it has long doubted that it lives in a meani…"

"Socialization through schooling, as it takes place here, and in Western societies, in general, is a priori stupefaction"

"The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which …"

"To be “reasonable” means to put oneself into a special, rarely happy relation to the sensuous. “Be reasonable” means,…"

"The question about “good origins” becomes the crux for enlightenment. It becomes more and more clear that this idea o…"

"In our thinking there is no longer any spark of the uplifting flight of concepts or of the ecstasies of understanding…"

"“Knowledge is power.” This is the sentence that dug the grave of philosophy in the nineteenth century. … This sentenc…"

"Psychologically, present-day cynics can be understood as borderline melancholics, who can keep their symptoms of depr…"