Karl Jaspers Quotes

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is enta...

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he ...

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolutio...

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects...

I do not know which impulse was stronger in me when I began to think: the original thirst for knowle...

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time it is the quiet space into...

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destr...

Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a di...