Stand Point Quotes by Wilhelm Dilthey

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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…
• 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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