"What man is, only his history tells." — Wilhelm Dilthey
"What man is, only his history tells."
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Wilhelm Dilthey
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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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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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If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by…
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More History Quotes
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one of 10,030 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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