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Karl Jaspers Quotes: Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.
         

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.


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Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.
         



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What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.



We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.



There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.



Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.



On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.



A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.



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

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



Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.





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