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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 21 quotes by Karl Jaspers Karl Theodor Jaspers (German: [ˈjaspɐs]; 23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. After being trained in and practicing psychiatry, Jaspers turned to philosophical inquiry and attempted to discover an innovative philosophical system. He was often viewed as a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, though he did not accept this... Read full biography of Karl Jaspers → 1 2 Ctrl → Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. 0 Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own... → 0 The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I... → 0 The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that... → 0 As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. 0 Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. 0 The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of... → 0 I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both... → 0 The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with... → 0 Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and... → 0 Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. 0 My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. 0 At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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