Accomplishment Quote by Karl Jaspers

“Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.” quote by Karl Jaspers — Download Open image

“Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.”

Karl Jaspers

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“But each one of us is guilty insofar as he remained inactive. The guilt of passivity is different. Impotence excuses; no moral law demands a spectacular death. Plato already deemed it a matter of course to go into hiding in desperate times of calamity, and to survive. But passivity knows itself morally guilty of every failure, every neglect to act…

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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history…

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We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

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The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between…

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What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

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

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“Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.”

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