Karl Jaspers Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Karl Jaspers quotes and sayings (psychologist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.”
“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 which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.”
“The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.”
“Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.”
“As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.”
“Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.”
“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.”
“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 philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.”
“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.”
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