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Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

Karl Jaspers

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Karl Theodor Jaspers (23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher. Among his most well known contributions is his idea of the Axial Age [Achsenzeit].

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Je třeba rozlišovat dvojí: vědomí viny a uznání nějaké instituce na světě jako soudce.

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

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

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.

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