Peter Sloterdijk (1947) German philosopher
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 535
“Life is earnest, art is gay.”
Prologue
Wallenstein (1798), Prologue - Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp)
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