Even truth can be deceptive, whatever its appearance.

Karl Jaspers Tragedy is not enough
Also known as: Karl Theodor Jaspers
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About Karl Jaspers

Karl Theodor Jaspers (23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher. Among his most well known contributions is his idea of the Axial Age [Achsenzeit].

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Man's primary will to know struggles against the selfsatisfied formalism of empty learning which drugs man into
the illusory calm of fulfillment. It fights against empty intellectualism,
against nihilism which has ceased wanting anything and thus has ceased wanting to know. It battles against mediocrity which never takes stock of itself and which confuses knowledge with the mere learning of facts and <> The only satisfaction which man derives from a radical commitment to knowledge is the hope of advancing the frontier of knowledge to a point beyond which he cannot advance except by transcending knowledge itself.

Jistý úředník během denacifikace: „Pokud jsem vstoupil pod nátlakem do strany a dal tak přednost relativně dobrému postavení, pokud jsem se zařídil v nacistickém státě a stal se tak poživatelem určitých výhod a pokud teď musím nést nepříznivé následky, pak nemám - třebaže jsem to učinil s vnitřním nepřátelstvím – právo si stěžovat.