All Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes
- 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… Always Realizes
- What man is, only his history tells. History
- 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… Certitude
- 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… Ancient
- From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. Always Remains
- If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. Aim
- 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… All
- The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. All
- Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. Analyze
- 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… Activity
- In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects. Aspect
- 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… Causes
- 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… All
- 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… Existence
- 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… Foundation
- However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. 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… Adequate
- Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences. Arose
- 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… Accordance
- We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern. Concern