Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. - Karl Jaspers 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
