Karl Jaspers Quotes

No science of religion (history, psychology, or sociology of religion) understands the reality of religion. Science can know and understand religions without the investigator’s belonging to or having faith in any of them. Real faith is not knowable.

Can truth be found? Is it possible to live with truth? All life-force stems from blindness. It grows from imagined knowledge, in myth taken for faith, and in the substitute myths; in unquestioning acceptance, and in mind-narrowing untruths. Within the human predicament the quest for truth presents an impossible task.

В творчестве Ницше нигде нет настоящего центра: главного произведе

how I longed to find an authority above the nations, a law above all states, capable of giving legal aid to an individual abused and rendered without rights by his state.

Filosofia se trădează pe sine atunci când degenerează în dogmatism, adică într-o ştiinţă fixată în formule, definitivă, completă. A face filozofie înseamnă a fi pe drum; în filozofie întrebările sunt mult mai importante decât răspunsurile, şi fiecare răspuns devine o nouă întrebare

Confucius and Lao-Tse were living in China, all the schools of Chinese philosophy came into being, including those of Mo Ti, Chuang Tse, Lieh Tzu and a host of others; India produced the Upanishads and Buddha and, like China, ran the whole gamut of philosophical possibilities down to materialism, scepticism and nihilism; in Iran, Zarathustra taught a challenging view of the world as a struggle between good and evil; in Palestine the prophets made their appearance from Elijah by way of Isaiah and Jeremiah to Deutero-Isaiah; Greece witnessed the appearance of Homer, of the philosophers — Parmenides, Heraclitus and Plato, — of the tragedians, of Thucydides and Archimedes. Everything implied by these names developed during these few centuries almost simultaneously in China, India and the West.

The individual who can help himself is precisely the one who wills that authority exist in the world.

Az ember alapjában véve több annál, mint amit megtudhatunk róla.

Omul nu-şi descoperă adevăratul sine decât în situaţii-limită.

Beszélni valamiről annyi, mint értelmezni azt.

Philosophical activity is fully real only at the summits of personal philosophizing, while objectivized philosophical thought is a preparation for, and a recollection of, it.

For one wishing to philosophize, it is particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that which is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.