Karl Jaspers Quotes on Time
Karl Jaspers was a 20th-century German philosopher and psychiatrist, one of the founders of existentialism and a major figure of mid-20th century European thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Karl Jaspers on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“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 .”
As quoted in Philosophy for a Time of Crisis : An Interpretation, with Key Writings by Fifteen Great Modern Thinkers (1959) by Adrienne Koch, Ch. 18, "Karl Jaspers : A New Humanism -
“As quoted in Philosophy for a Time of Crisis : An Interpretation, with Key Writings by Fifteen Great Modern Thinkers (1959) by Adrienne Koch, Ch. 18, "Karl Jaspers : A New Humanism”
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 . -
“I approach the presentation of Kierkegaard with some trepidation. Next to Nietzsche , or rather, prior to Nietzsche, I consider him to be the most important thinker of our post- Kantian age. With Goethe and Hegel , an epoch had reached its conclusion, and our prevalent way of thinking — that is, the positivistic , natural-scientific one — cannot really be considered as philosophy .”
The Great Philosophers (1962) -
“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.”
Man in the Modern Age(1933)