TOP 20 Karl Jaspers Quotes.
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“It is the search for the truth, not possession of the truth which is the way of philosophy. Its questions are more relevant than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.”
— Karl Jaspers (00:00)
“Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.”
— Karl Jaspers (00:07)
“The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.”
— Karl Jaspers (00:14)
“A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn’t. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.”
— Karl Jaspers (00:21)
“On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.”
— Karl Jaspers (00:28)
“Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man’s being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.”
— Karl Jaspers (00:35)
“Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.”
— Karl Jaspers (00:42)
“The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.”
— Karl Jaspers (00:49)
“Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character.”
— Karl Jaspers (00:56)
“What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.”
— Karl Jaspers (01:03)
“Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.”
— Karl Jaspers (01:10)
“My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.”
— Karl Jaspers (01:17)
“When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.”
— Karl Jaspers (01:24)
“The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.”
— Karl Jaspers (01:31)
“Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming a poison; can prevent enlightenment from becoming an agent of death.”
— Karl Jaspers (01:38)
“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 (01:45)
“There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values – is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.”
— Karl Jaspers (01:52)
“All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.”
— Karl Jaspers (01:59)
“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.”
— Karl Jaspers (02:06)
“The moment is the sole reality.”
— Karl Jaspers (02:13)
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