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To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other…

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Wilhelm Dilthey has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it…
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…
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological…
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…
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context…
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…
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract…
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…

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The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the… — Thomas Jefferson
The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people… — Unknown Author
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own… — Luke the Evangelist
But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie. — David McCord
I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath. — Khalil
If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong? you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch… — John Cassian
I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the… — Jane Kenyon
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is… — Virginia Woolf
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his… — Henry Ward Beecher
When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to… — Michael Palin
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style.… — Steven Spielberg
I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by… — Steven Spielberg

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