“We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the mind in comprehension. In understanding we start from the connection of the given, living whole, in order to… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. — 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
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
