Essentials Quote by Karl Jaspers

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

— Karl Jaspers

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

— Antonio Machado

What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special…

— Mary Midgley

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

— Charles Peguy

... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...

— Jostein Gaarder

Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives…

— Philip Kitcher

A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This…

— Alfred Korzybski

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Karl Jaspers

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule,…

— Bertrand Russell

The study of great …...

— Vikrant Parsai

Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could…

— Friedrich Nietzsche