Karl Jaspers Quotes

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don't learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.