Karl Jaspers - True Quotes

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The would-be climber must be able to make himself liked... please his superiors — avoid showing independence except in those matters wherein independence is expected of him by his chiefs... the winners in the race have qualities which disincline them to allow others to be their true selves. Hence the winners snub all those who aim at adequate self-expression, speaking of them as pretentious, eccentric, biased, unpractical, and measuring their achievements by insincere standards.

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

In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them.... What is today obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art.... the opposition to man's true nature as man.

Karl Jaspers

For any community and those living in it, only that is true which can be communicated to all. Hence universal communicability is unconsciously accepted as the source and criterion of those truths that promote life through communal means.

Karl Jaspers