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… — 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
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such--an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension. — 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
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone… — 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
