Karl Jaspers Quotes
We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Quotes to Explore
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
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As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.
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There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.
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The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.
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We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
