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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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.Karl Jaspers
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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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 is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
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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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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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