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.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.Karl Jaspers
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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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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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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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.
Karl Jaspers
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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