Karl Jaspers Quotes
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I don't read books.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.
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I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.
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I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
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I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
