“Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.”
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers was a prominent German psychiatrist and philosopher, born on February 23, 1883, in Hamburg, Germany, and died on February 26, 1969. He had a profound impact on the fields of psychiatry and philosophy with his unique philosophical perspective and theories on mental illness. more
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