Karl Jaspers

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 thought. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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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 shall feel the glow of its life. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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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 laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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