Fortieth Birthday Quotes by Karl Jaspers

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• On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so…
• Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with…
• Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding…
• The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him…
• When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
• The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no…
• It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated…
• There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of…
• Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
• The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate…
• Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

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