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Existenz only becomes clear through reason; reason only has content through Existenz.
— Karl Jaspers
Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character
— Karl Jaspers
Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.
— Karl Jaspers
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
— Karl Jaspers
Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.
— Jaroslav Pelikan
I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity.
— Karl Jaspers
The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.
— Karl Jaspers
What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.
— Karl Jaspers
The power of belief gives legitimacy to whatever may be necessary.
— Steven Redhead
A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.
— Karl Jaspers
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
— Karl Jaspers
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
— Karl Jaspers
I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.
— Joseph Brodsky
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.
— Karl Jaspers
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
— Karl Jaspers
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
— Karl Jaspers
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
— Karl Jaspers
We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.
— Karl Jaspers
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.
— Karl Jaspers
The moment is the sole reality.
— Karl Jaspers
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.
— Jean-Louis Barrault
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
— Karl Jaspers
But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.
— Michael Scott
