As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. — Karl Jaspers
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from parmenides to hegel, is lost. — Karl Jaspers
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. — Karl Jaspers
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. — Karl Jaspers
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: — Karl Jaspers
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. — Karl Jaspers