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Men Quotes by Karl Jaspers
- 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…
- There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is,…
- Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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