[Giorgione, Three Philosophers]To lead a philosophical life means also to take seriously our experience of men, of happiness and hurt, of success and failure, of the obscure and confused. It means not to forget but to possess ourselves inwardly of our experience, not to let ourselves be distracted but to think problems through, not to take things for granted but to elucidate them.
(Jaspers,1951:122)Contrary to a life either without solid substance or a life in which this substance is never affected, only the enthusiastic attitude means a life awake, a life in totality and authenticity... Enthusiasm is becoming oneself in the act of devoting oneself.
(Jaspers: The Illumination of Existenz:119)
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