Character Quote by Karl Jaspers

“Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.”

Karl Jaspers

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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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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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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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