The teacher of love teaches struggle. The teacher of lifeless isolation from the world teaches peace.
—Karl Jaspers
The masses are our masters; and for every one who looks facts in the face his existence has become dependent on them, so that the thought of them must control his doings, his cares, and his duties.
—Karl Jaspers
Our questions and answers are in part determined by the historical tradition in which we find ourselves. We apprehend truth from our own source within the historical tradition.
—Karl Jaspers
Man, if he is to remain man, must advance by way of consciousness. There is no road leading backward. … We can no longer veil reality from ourselves by renouncing self-consciousness without simultaneously excluding ourselves from the historical course of human existence.
—Karl Jaspers
Imminent seems the collapse of that which for millennium has constituted man’s universe.
—Karl Jaspers
Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process.
—Karl Jaspers
We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
—Karl Jaspers
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.
—Karl Jaspers
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