Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

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

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

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not...

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not...

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to...

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to...

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of...

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of...

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied...

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied...

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to...

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to...

Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality...

Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality...

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and...

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and...

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own...

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own...

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical...

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical...

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time;...

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time;...

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is...

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is...

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated...

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated...

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is...

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is...

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of...

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of...

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

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

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

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time;...

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time;...

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.