Quote by Karl Jaspers
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my lifes work. – 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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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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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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God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire

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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. – Samuel Johnson

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I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being let go. – Mika Brzezinski

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I saw Richard Linklaters film Slacker for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope. – Kevin Smith

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But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997. – Richard Marx

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