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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

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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.

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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Psychologist

Born: February 23rd, 1883

Died: February 26th, 1969

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