Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes

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• 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…
• What man is, only his history tells.
• On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as…
• Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their…
• From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
• If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
• All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in…
• The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
• Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
• No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as…
• In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
• 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 has…
• If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear…
• The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge…
• 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 to…
• However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
• The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and…
• Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
• Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the…
• We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

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