Just as primitive man believed himself to.... : Quote by Karl Jaspers

“ Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant. ”

Karl Jaspers
  • From : Man In The Modern Age
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