Only As An Individual Can Man Become

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.

The Socratic Teacher Turns His Students Away From Himself And Back Onto Themselves; He Hides In Paradoxes, Makes Himself Inaccessible. The Intimate Relationship Between Student And Teacher Here Is Not One Of Submission, But Of A Contest For Truth.

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.

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.

A Scientific Approach Means Knowing What One Knows And What One Doesn't. Absolute Or Complete Knowledge Is Unscientific.