Karl Jaspers Short Quotes

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Even the most elevated psychological understanding is not a loving understanding.

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The teacher of love teaches struggle. The teacher of lifeless isolation from the world teaches peace.

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All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

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Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...

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When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

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We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

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… Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

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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.

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One who would influence the masses must have recourse to the art of advertisement. The clamor of puffery is today requisite even for an intellectual movement.

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Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

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On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

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"There is no God," cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

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