"If there were a science of human beings……" — Wilhelm Dilthey
"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context."
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21 Quotes by Wilhelm Dilthey
Wilhelm Dilthey has 21 quotes on this site.
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The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning…
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What man is, only his history tells.
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On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and…
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Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious…
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From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
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All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions…
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The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
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Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality…
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No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the…
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In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources…
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If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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