Quotes of Karl Jaspers - somelinesforyou

“ Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey; they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self-being; if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey; they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Technology is the procedure by which scientific man masters nature for the purpose of moulding his existence, delivering himself from want, and giving his environment the form that appeals to him. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ But we cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery…not for penetrating clear though but for the whisperings of the irrational…not for science but for wizadry disguised as science…not for rationally founded influence but for magic. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Technology is the procedure by which scientific man masters nature for the purpose of moulding his existence, delivering himself from want, and giving his environment the form that appeals to him. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious: a moment can be everything. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ 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

“ In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide; without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly; only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ But we cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery…not for penetrating clear though but for the whisperings of the irrational…not for science but for wizadry disguised as science…not for rationally founded influence but for magic. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Technology is the procedure by which scientific man masters nature for the purpose of moulding his existence, delivering himself from want, and giving his environment the form that appeals to him. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide; without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly; only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey; they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery…not for penetrating clear though but for the whisperings of the irrational…not for science but for wizadry disguised as science…not for rationally founded influence but for magic. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin; it wuld be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen… ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey; they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ But we cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery…not for penetrating clear though but for the whisperings of the irrational…not for science but for wizadry disguised as science…not for rationally founded influence but for magic. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Technology is the procedure by which scientific man masters nature for the purpose of moulding his existence, delivering himself from want, and giving his environment the form that appeals to him. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ But we cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Technology is the procedure by which scientific man masters nature for the purpose of moulding his existence, delivering himself from want, and giving his environment the form that appeals to him. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious: a moment can be everything. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ 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

“ An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self-being; if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself. ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ Technology is the procedure by which scientific man masters nature for the purpose of moulding his existence, delivering himself from want, and giving his environment the form that appeals to him. ”

- Karl Jaspers
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