Quotes by : Karl Jaspers

Existenz only becomes clear through reason reason only has content through Existenz.

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

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

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

Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds....

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

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

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

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

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

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