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> [Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/greatness-of-mind-becomes-an-object-of-love-only-when-the-power-at/)

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## More by Karl Jaspers

> [The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/the-more-determinedly-i-exist-as-myself-within-the-conditions-of-the/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/nietzsche-s-ideas-and-plans-for-example-the-idea-of-giving-up-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/what-is-meaningful-cannot-in-fact-be-isolated-we-achieve/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/but-each-one-of-us-is-guilty-insofar-as-he-remained-inactive-the/)

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> [At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/at-the-present-moment-the-security-of-coherent-philosophy-which/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/the-great-philosophers-and-the-great-works-are-standards-for-the/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/we-must-learn-to-talk-with-each-other-and-we-mutually-must-understand/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/the-socratic-teacher-turns-his-students-away-from-himself-and-back/)

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> [What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/what-makes-us-afraid-is-our-great-freedom-in-the-face-of-the/)

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> [To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/to-decide-to-become-a-philosopher-seemed-as-foolish-to-me-as-to/)

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> [Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/philosophy-is-tested-and-characterised-by-the-way-in-which-it/)

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> [“Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/tragedy-occurs-whenever-awareness-exceeds-power-and-particularly/)

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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 —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/there-is-no-god-cry-the-masses-more-and-more-vociferously-and-with/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/the-limits-of-science-have-always-been-the-source-of-bitter/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/the-greek-word-for-philosopher-philosophos-connotes-a-distinction/)

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