“"There is no God," cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.”

—  Karl Jaspers

Man in the Modern Age (1933)

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German psychiatrist and philosopher 1883–1969

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