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Karl Jaspers Quotes

German - Psychologist | February 23, 1883 - February 26, 1969

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

Alone Past Reality Questions Become

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.

Attitude History Practice Philosophy

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Man Become Individual Only

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Life Work Birthday Philosophy Made

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Accomplishment Thinking Self My Own

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Philosophy Concrete Only Most

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

History Philosophy Way Tested Which

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Alone History Man Thought Reality

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

Life Time Myself Past Language Feel

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