Quote by Karl Jaspers
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a ra

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. – Karl Jaspers

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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of mans being, unfolding itself in thought. – Karl Jaspers

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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. – Karl Jaspers

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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. – Karl Jaspers

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You dont have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesnt mean you wont fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying. – Benjamin Carson

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. – Aldous Huxley

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. – Voltaire

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I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means. – Steve Sabol

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