I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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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.Karl Jaspers
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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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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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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