Karl Jaspers Quotes
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
Karl Jaspers
Quotes to Explore
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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
Sam Harris
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
Walter Kirn
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
Owain Yeoman
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
Ted Dekker
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
Dan Rather
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Too many people today on Wall Street go for the quick buck at the expense of their reputation and client satisfaction, the rationale being “let’s make the money while we can and retire early in the sun.” For me, this is not a sprint but a marathon, besides the fact that, in my definition, overnight success is 15 years. Anyone who does not understand the basic tenets of this philosophy is not someone I can or will do business with.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.
D. H. Lawrence
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
William S. Burroughs
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To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
Anna Kamienska
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
Karl Jaspers
