Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human… - Karl Jaspers

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being.

from “Philosophy and Science”, World Review Magazine (March 1950)

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. The content of our truth depends upon our appropriating the historical foundation. Our own power of generation lies in the rebirth of what has been handed down to us. If we do not wish to slip back, nothing must be forgotten; but if philosophising is to be genuine our thoughts must arise from our own source. Hence all appropriation of tradition proceeds from the intentness of our own life. The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

Kdo se dosud z vlastního popudu neprosvěcuje a nechápe svou vinu, bude mít sklon obžalovávat žalobce