Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself. 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 philosopherpoetstupid 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 medicinemenlong 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 realattitudephilosophy As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. Karl Jaspers unityuniversalphilosophy 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 objectivitypracticeaction Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension. Karl Jaspers concretetaxiphilosophy
