Author: Karl Jaspers

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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