“At the parting of ways in the life-order, where the question is between the new creation or decay, that man will be decisive for new creation who is able on his own initiative to seize the helm and steer a course of his own choosing — even if that course be opposed to the will of the masses. Should the emergence of such persons become impossible a lamentable shipwreck will be inevitable.”

—  Karl Jaspers

Man in the Modern Age (1933)

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German psychiatrist and philosopher 1883–1969

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