The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision. — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision. — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
“What is experienced from within cannot be categorized in concepts that have been developed for the external world of the senses.” — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
“We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the mind in… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences. — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
