We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

- Karl Jaspers

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

- Karl Jaspers

What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes …

- Karl Jaspers

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

- Karl Jaspers

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

- Karl Jaspers

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and unde…

- Karl Jaspers

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

- Karl Jaspers

The moment is the sole reality.

- Karl Jaspers

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

- Karl Jaspers