All Karl Jaspers Quotes
- 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
- At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. Coherent
- Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. Appropriates
- The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of… Better
- Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. Approaching
- The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us… Alone
- I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me… Began
- The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but… Beings
- My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. Depth
- To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Decide
- Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become… Believed
- What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and… Achieve