Appropriation Quote by Karl Jaspers

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

— Karl Jaspers

Sometimes we let other people's reality become our own. The circumstances need to be studied to thus follow a philosophy.

— Anonymous

“examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different…

— Gregory B. Sadler

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

— Thomas Carlyle

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in…

— Karl Jaspers

“Wrangling about precisely what constitutes genuine philosophy, proper philosophical practice, method, and aims is an important part of modern philosophy’s content and heritage”

— Gregory B. Sadler

History is philosophy learned from examples

— Anonymous

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the…

— Theodor Adorno

Philosophy is an act of living.

— Plutarch

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about…

— Michael Dummett

“So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.”

— Will Durant