75 Quotes by Karl Jaspers

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

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

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

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

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

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process; he is not merely an extant life, but is, within that life, endowed with possibilities through the freedom he possesses to make of himself what he will by the activities on which he decides.

It is the search for the truth, not possession of the truth which is the way of philosophy. Its questions are more relevant than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

The moment is the sole reality.

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