Karl Jaspers
On Silence and Emptiness
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They grow afraid of their own words, wishes, and feelings. Nothing remains but technical questions; and when these have been dealt with, there ensues a dumbness which is not the profundity of silence but merely an expression of vacancy.
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was a German philosopher, an existentialist, a psychologist, the developer of the psychohistorical method, and a proponent of the concept of multiple truths.