"To attempt this would be like seeing without……" — Wilhelm Dilthey
"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 than this epistemological stand-point."
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Wilhelm Dilthey
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21 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…
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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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If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience…
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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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