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View Plans“ ”No science of religion (history, psychology, or sociology of religion) understands the reality of religion. Science can know and understand religions without the investigator’s belonging to or having faith in any of them. Real faith is not knowable.
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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Additional quotes by Karl Jaspers
how I longed to find an authority above the nations, a law above all states, capable of giving legal aid to an individual abused and rendered without rights by his state.
The individual who can help himself is precisely the one who wills that authority exist in the world.
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.