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Karl Jaspers Quotes. the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. "Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy".
- “To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.” ― Karl Jaspers.
- “What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and back again from the whole thus reached to the particular significant facts.”
- “All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.” ― Karl Jaspers, The Idea of the University.
- “Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.
- The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
- At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
- I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
- To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
- The teacher of love teaches struggle. The teacher of lifeless isolation from the world teaches peace.
- 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.
- In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them.... What is today obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art....
- The masses are our masters; and for every one who looks facts in the face his existence has become dependent on them, so that the thought of them must control his doings, his cares, and his duties.
- Psychology of World Views
- Man in The Modern Age
- On My Philosopy
- Nietzsche
- The Question of German Guilt
Psychologie der Weltanschauungen(1919)Auch das gesteigertste psychologische Verstehen ist kein liebendes Verstehen.Der Lehrer der Liebe lehrt den Kampf, der Lehrer der lieblosen Isolierung von aller Welt aber die Ruhe.As translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul (1951) The general fellowship of our humansituation has been rendered even more dubious than before, inasmuch as, though the old ties of caste have been loosened, a new restriction of the individual to some prescribed status in society is manifest. Less than ever, perhaps, is it possible for a man to transc...
As published in Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre (1956) edited by Walter Kaufmann. Text online at Marxists Internet Archive. My path was not the normal one of professors of philosophy. I did not intend to become a doctor of philosophy by studying philosophy (I am in fact a doctor of medicine) nor did I by any means, intend originally to qu...
As translated by C. Walraff and F. Schmitz (1997)With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: t...Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.… Nietzsche’s ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.As translated by E. B. Ashton (1948) No one is guiltless...But no one is beyond the pale of human existence, provided he pays for his guilt. We are sorely deficient in talking with each other and listening to each other. We lack mobility, criticism and self-criticism. We incline to doctrinism. What makes it worse is that so many people do not reall...
Karl Jaspers, a prominent philosopher, believed that the ultimate purpose of philosophy is to delve into the depths of human existence and gain a profound understanding of what it truly means to be human. This quote highlights the significance of philosophical inquiry in expanding our self-awareness, introspection, and knowledge about human nature.
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