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

Quote by Karl Jaspers

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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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel,...

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel,...

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...

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...

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 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.

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...

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...

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more...

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more...

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...

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

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.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of...

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of...

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...

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.