Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. Karl Jaspers Read Quote
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. Karl Jaspers Read Quote
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. Karl Jaspers Read Quote
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought. Karl Jaspers Read Quote
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life’s work. Karl Jaspers Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. Karl Jaspers Read Quote
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Karl Jaspers Read Quote