Karl Jaspers, . German psychiatrist, philosopher, and theologian. A founder of modern existentialism, he was concerned with human reactions to extreme situations. His works include Man and the Modern Age (1931) and Philosophy (1932).
Philosophy has no institutional reality and is not in competition with the church, the state, the real communities of the world.
Any objectification, whether it be the formation of schools or sects, is the ruin of philosophy.
The freedom that can be attained in philosophizing can not be handed down by the doctrine of an institution.
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
In the realm of the spirit, men become companions-in-thought through the millennia, become occasions for each other to find the way to truth from their own source, although they cannot present each other with ready-made truth.
Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. We can thereby read their works as if all philosophers were contemporaries.
