Carl Schmitt Quotes

Germany, Jurist
July 11, 1888 – April, 7, 1985.

Carl Schmitt was a conservative German jurist and political theorist. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. His work has been a major influence on subsequent political theory, legal theory, continental philosophy and political theology, and remains both influential and controversial due to his close association and juridical-political allegiance with Nazism. He is known as the "crown jurist of the Third Reich".

The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura.

Carl Schmitt
- God
- Mankind
- Humiliation
The understanding of every type of representation disappears with the spread of economic thinking.

Carl Schmitt

Since God actually became visible man, no visible man should leave the visible world to its own devices.

Carl Schmitt
- World
- God
- Man
Norms are valid only for normal situations.

Carl Schmitt
- Normal
- Situations
- Valid
The crisis of European jurisprudence began a century ago with the victory of legal positivism.

Carl Schmitt
- Victory
- Crisis
- Legal
Legality has become a poisonous dagger, with which one party stabs the other in the back.

Carl Schmitt
- Back
- Poisonous
- Legality
The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

Carl Schmitt
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Carl Schmitt

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

Carl Schmitt
- You
- Enemy
- Tell
The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.

Carl Schmitt