Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Philosophers -- Karl Jaspers
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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).
On all paths it is essential to reach the Source where in highest consciousness the demand becomes audible in the world which, in spite of failing to be realized in the world, yet produces the true Being through obedience to it.
Logic and history of philosophy are complementary. One can hardly be grasped without the other. Work on the one therefore benefits work on the other. What is being developed there, as the world of thought, is demonstrated here as the reality of thought.
Existenz only becomes clear through reason; reason only has content through Existenz.
Reason is always too little when it is enclosed with final and determinate forms, and it is always too much when it appears as a self-sufficient substitute.
Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.
The central point of philosophizing is first reached in the awareness of potential Existenz.
Philosophizing is the act of thought itself, by which the essence of man, in its entirety, is realized in the individual man.
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