Full Idea
Philosophising, not knowing, brings me to myself. The helplessness to which philosophising reduces me when I doubt its origin is an expressions of the helplessness of my self-being, and the reality of philosophising is the incipient upsurge of that being.
Gist of Idea
My helplessness in philosophising reveals my being, and begins its upsurge
Source
Karl Jaspers (Philosophy [1932], vol.2)
Book Reference
'Existentialism', ed/tr. Solomon,Robert C. [Modern Library 1974], p.139
A Reaction
I like the sound of 'philosophy as a way of life', and loosely aspire to it, but I'm still not sure what it means, other than a good way to pass the time. The idea that it leads to higher modes of being sounds a bit arrogant. But it is a good thing!
Related Idea
Idea 20315 'Existenz' is the potential being, which I could have, and ought to have [Jaspers]