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Education Quotes by Karl Jaspers

8 Education quotes by Karl Jaspers

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Karl Jaspers’ eight statements on learning draw from his existential philosophy, urging readers to think beyond mere facts. The selection is concise, yet each line invites deeper contemplation about the purpose of schooling. It offers a brief yet thought‑provoking glimpse into his educational outlook.

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The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate…

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All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

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“To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as…

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“Even the best institutions at the university are apt to deteriorate and to become distorted. Thus the very translation of thought into…

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The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only…

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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…

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“Three things are required at a university: professional training, education of the whole man, research. For the university is simultaneously a professional…

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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…

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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,…

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Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

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What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them…

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“But each one of us is guilty insofar as he remained inactive. The guilt of passivity is different. Impotence excuses; no moral law demands…

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

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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history…

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We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

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The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between…

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What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

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Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

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“Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.”

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There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values —…

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“The limits of science have always been the source of bitter disappointment when people expected something from science that it was not able to…

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The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers…

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