German psychiatrist (1883-1969)

Usage examples of jaspers.

As Karl Jaspers points out, according to Spinoza "it is a mark of the radical difference between God and the world that of God's infinitely many attributes only two are available to us.

Karl Jaspers comments, "What, according to Porphyry, would seem to have been a rare, anomalous experience, is, in the statement of Plotinus, the natural reality.

Thus when Jaspers, also known for his extensive work on psychopathology, reports the following, it is very telling: "Ecstatic states and mystical experiences play an important part in the history of all cultures.

Karl Jaspers writes that "he was called upon as an arbiter in quarrels, but never had an enemy.

And this is the man about whom Jaspers says, very accurately and with much admiration, "No philosopher has lived more in the One than Plotinus"!

Coming for the first time to the works of Sartre, Jaspers, or Camus is often like reading, on page after page, one's own intimate thoughts and feelings, expressed with new precision and concrete‑ness.

It is customary to say that the principal Existentialist philosophers of our time are Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, and of course Sartre.

Yet perhaps he is experiencing what Jaspers calls "the preparing power of chaos.

Now all I've got to do is get back through the Voion lines so I can help the boys pick off as many of those Jaspers as we can before they ride over us.

There were veined agates, waterworn and smooth as swallows eggs, stones of soft blue with lines of red through them, or pink or yellow, and Jaspers and carnelians in a hundred shades of burgundy, shiny black onyx and tiger's eyes of gold barred with iridescent waves of shifting colour.

It was a more of a pectoral than a necklace, with a single string around the back of the neck and the stones woven together in a plate-like decoration which hung on the breast with the big crystal in the centre, and a mosaic of coloured agates and jaspers and beryls surrounding it.