All Karl Jaspers Quotes
- On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise… Becomes
- Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. Accomplishment
- Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through… Achieved
- The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself… Answer
- When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself. Becomes
- The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and… Appealed
- It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends… All
- There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is,… Account
- Only as an individual can man become a philosopher. Individual
- Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension. Approached
- The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student… Back Onto
- Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character Becomes
- The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental… Aspect
- I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's… Allows
- 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… Any
- The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature. Elements
- Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. Applicability
- We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences. Accept
- What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled. Afraid
- The moment is the sole reality. Inspirational
- Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living… Birth
- 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… Clearly
- If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it… Appropriation
- Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is… Action
- As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. Become One