Author: Karl Jaspers

Quotes

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

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

- Karl Jaspers

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

- Karl Jaspers

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

- Karl Jaspers

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

- Karl Jaspers

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

- Karl Jaspers

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