Karl Jaspers
1883 - 1969
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Biography
Karl Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. He made significant contributions to the fields of existentialism and psychopathology, exploring themes such as freedom, communication, and human existence. Jaspers' works like 'General Psychopathology' and 'Philosophy of Existence' are widely studied and revered for their profound insights.
Famous Quotes (5)
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Man’s existence precedes essence.
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When reason sets itself free in its autonomy, it constitutes itself as an ultimate value.
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The world is my world; this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language are the limits of my world.
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There is a way of thinking about what is human as a finite possibility in contrast to what we are empirically.
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Education is the way into ourselves; it is the self-discovery which is the self-recovery.