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When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

— Karl Jaspers Man in the Modern Age (1933)

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Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

The teacher of love teaches struggle. The teacher of lifeless isolation from the world teaches peace.

Psychology of World Views (1919)

To philosophise is to learn to die – philosophising is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being.

One who would influence the masses must have recourse to the art of advertisement. The clamour of puffery is to-day requisite even for an intellectual movement.

Man in the Modern Age (1933)

Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

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