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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me...

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Karl Jaspers

Quote by Karl Jaspers about philosophy, poets

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about people, man

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete...

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about philosophy

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.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about philosophy, essential, history

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the...

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Quote by Karl Menninger about love, people

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up...

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Quote by Karl Kraus about children

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with...

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Quote by Karl Kraus about love, woman, heart, world, man

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Quote by Karl Kraus about woman

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Quote by Karl Kraus about literature, writers

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the...

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Quote by Karl Marx about happiness, experience, people

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Quote by Karl Marx about history, tragedy

Only a few know, how much one must know, to know how little one knows

Quote by Werner Heisenberg about knowledge

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible.

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible.

Quote by Hermann Hesse about wisdom, impossible

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