Quotes by Karl Jaspers

Karl Jaspers

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn’t. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

Approach

Knowing

Mean

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

Demand

Democracy

People

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.

Deception

Ideas

Self

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Philosophy

Unity

Universal

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Hegel

Moments

Philosophy

Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Depth

May

Unity

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.

Action

Objectivity

Practice

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.

Men

Reality

Understanding

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

Character

Greatness

Mind

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.

Long

Medicine

Men

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Accepting

Accomplishment

Action

Answers

Approach

Attitude

Becoming

Birthday

Chaos

Character

Cherish Every Moment

Communication

Community

Concrete

Cry

Deception

Demand

Democracy

Depth

Desert

Differences

Emptiness

Essentials

Events

Exercise

Existential

Extraordinary

Faces

Fear

Fiction

Genius

Giving Up

Glowing

Greatness

Hegel

Historical

Ideas

Independence

Individual

Inspirational

Intimate Relationships

Knowing

Knowledge

Language

Law

Leaving

Limits

Littles

Long

Loss

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Quotes by Karl Jaspers

Karl Jaspers

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn’t. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

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.

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.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

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.

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