Disregard Quote by Wilhelm Dilthey

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

— C. Wright Mills

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

— Erik Erikson

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which…

— Burnett Hillman Streeter

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

— Edward Said

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in…

— Herbert Marcuse

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

— Allan Bloom

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

— T. S. Eliot

“Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

— Benedetto Croce

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

— Rollo May

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

— Johan Huizinga