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Carl Schmitt Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“All significant concepts of the modern state are secularized theological concepts.”
— Carl Schmitt, Political Theology
Tagged: Political Theology, Secular Theology, Religious Underpinning, God Will Never Die
“The pinnacle of great politics is the moment in which the enemy comes into view in concrete clarity as the enemy.”
— Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political
Tagged: Enemy, US vs. Them
“The state acts in many disguises but always as the same invisible person.”
— Carl Schmitt, Political Theology
Tagged: Politics, Bureaucracy, Government
“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything: It confirms not only the rule but also its existence, which derives only from the exception. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
— Carl Schmitt, Political Theology
Tagged: Repetition, The Exception
“It’s left to the private individual to be his own priest. But not only that. It’s also left to him to be he his own poet, his own philosopher, his own king, and his own master builder in the cathedral of his personality. The ultimate roots of romanticism and the romantic phenomenon lie in the private priesthood.”
— Carl Schmitt, Political Romanticism
Tagged: Ego, Individualism, Cult of Personality, Internet famous
“In the reciprocity of recognition lies the greatness of the concept.”
— Carl Schmitt, Ex Captivitate Salus. Erfahrungen der Zeit 1945/47
Tagged: How An Idea Works
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