My Own Depth


"Just as I do not exist without the world, I am not myself without transcendence. … I stand before transcendence, which does not occur to me as existing in the world of phenomenal things but speaks to me as possible – speaks to me in the voice of whatever exists, and most decidedly in that of my self-being. The transcendence before which I stand is the measure of my own depth."


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Karl Jaspers (Oldenburg, German Empire, 23 February 1883 - Basel, Switzerland, 26 February 1969)
◙ Artwork: Caspar David Friedrich

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