Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.Karl Jaspers
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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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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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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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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