Man in the Modern Age Quotes

“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. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.”
― Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age

“I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity.”
― Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age