Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. -Karl Jaspers Birthday
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. -Karl Jaspers Knowledge
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought. -Karl Jaspers Space
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 Knowledge
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. -Karl Jaspers Attitude
