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We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

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

— Karl Jaspers

#existed #hegel #lost #moment #philosophy

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#citizenship #comes #cry #curse #drunkenness

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#intoxicating #let us #liquors #manufacture #midst

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#away #because #brings #children #county

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 man's being, unfolding itself in thought. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#being #history #intellect #itself #like

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. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#anyone #become #enter #everyone #his

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

#anything #attained #critical #even #inner

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

— Karl Jaspers

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The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#channels #community #connects #functioning #human