All Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
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However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
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On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
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The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.
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In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
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The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.
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We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
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No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
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The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
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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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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 to their foundation.
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All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.
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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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Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
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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 of human nature.
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