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

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

"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 …"

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

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

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

"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…"

"Bourgeois morality tries to maintain an illusion of altruism, whereas in all other areas bourgeois thinking has long …"