Karl Jaspers Quotes

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

Karl Jaspers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: psychologist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: February 23, 1883 - February 26, 1969

Topics

HistoryGreatBetterUnderstanding

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Johnny Carson

TimeLoseEarlyChristmasOffice

Hillary Clinton is one of the most compelling figures in the world today... and Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait shows us, for the first time, the true trajectory of her life and career.

Sonny Mehta

LifeTodayTimeWorldPortraitTrue

I went to an all-girls school in a uniform and always got detention for wearing colorful boxer shorts under my kilt.

Tory Burch

SchoolUniformColorfulAlwaysGot

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

Roberta Williams

PeopleComputersThoughtWantBecome

Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.

Mary Gaitskill

PeopleMeStoryViewExerciseWay

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

Mo Ibrahim

EducationAmazingCountryLiteracy

I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.

Jason Reynolds

PeopleCreateWantNothingTrySit

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

Joseph Epstein

I AmTrumanAmHeterosexualCapote

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

Donald Byrd

Creative

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

OrganizationUniverseYouFeeling

We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else.

Courtney Barnett

CultureThinkTryingYouWayEven

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Antony Sher

MeActingPlaceFirstDisguiseDrew

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