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 More Quotes by Karl Jaspers More Quotes From Karl Jaspers To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Karl Jaspers philosopher poet stupid I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. Karl Jaspers medicine men long If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. Karl Jaspers real attitude philosophy As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. Karl Jaspers unity universal philosophy 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. Karl Jaspers objectivity practice action Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension. Karl Jaspers concrete taxi philosophy
