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From Quotes by Karl Jaspers
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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