There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all,… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past,… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“But each one of us is guilty insofar as he remained inactive. The guilt of passivity is different. Impotence excuses; no moral law demands… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.” — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
