Activity Quote by Wilhelm Dilthey

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

What man is, only his history tells.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“What is experienced from within cannot be categorized in concepts that have been developed for the external world of the senses.”

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the mind in…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.

— Wilhelm Dilthey