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Philosophy 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…
- Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
- Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
- 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…
- As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
- At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
- Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
- 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…
- Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
- 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…
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- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
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