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• The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.

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  Teacher, Intimate Relationships, Students

  Karl Jaspers (1965). “The idea of the university”

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• With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.

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  Limits, Path, Desert

  Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.45, JHU Press

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• Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

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  Demand, World, Existential

  Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.60, JHU Press

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• When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

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  Leaving, Events, Chaos

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• On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

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  Lying, Knowledge, Science

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• The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

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  Law, Fiction, Study

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• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

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  Birthday, Philosophy, Made

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• Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming a poison; can prevent enlightenment from becoming an agent of death.

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  Men, Self, Becoming

  Karl Jaspers (1960). “Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy”, p.93, Yale University Press

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• It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

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  Greatness, People, Independence

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• Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

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  Men, Philosopher, Individual

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• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

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  Philosophy, Unity, Universal

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• Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

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  Thinking, Self, Accomplishment

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• Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

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  Giving Up, Ideas, Community

  Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.61, JHU Press

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

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  Historical, Depth, My Own

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Philosophy, Real

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• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

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  Philosophy, Understanding, Essentials

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• To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

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  Stupid, Philosopher, Poet

  "Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre". Book by Walter Kaufmann, 1956.

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• Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

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  Philosophy, Way, Tested

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• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Men

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• 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.

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  Men, Medicine, Long

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• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

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  Philosophy, Taxi, Concrete

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• 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.

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  Objectivity, Practice, Action

  "On My Philosophy" by Karl Jaspers, www.marxists.org. 1941.

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