Wilhelm Dilthey quotes
-
“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 has become of vital concern to our civilization.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press
-
“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.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : "Meaning in history: W. Dilthey's thoughts on history and society".
-
“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.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.64, Princeton University Press
-
“If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.61, Princeton University Press
-
-
“In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.51, Princeton University Press
-
“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.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.50, Princeton University Press
-
“Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.58, Princeton University Press
-
“The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.”
-- 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 in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.50, Princeton University Press
-
“If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.”
-- Wilhelm Dilthey -
“From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.51, Princeton University Press
-
“Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.59, Princeton University Press
-
-
“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.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.51, Princeton University Press
-
“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.”
-- Wilhelm DiltheySource : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press
You may also like:
-
Auguste Comte
Philosopher -
Benedetto Croce
Philosopher -
Edmund Husserl
Philosopher -
Emile Durkheim
Sociologist -
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist -
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Philosopher -
Georg Simmel
Philosopher -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher -
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Philosopher -
Henri Bergson
Philosopher -
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher -
Jurgen Habermas
Philosopher -
Karl Jaspers
Psychiatrist -
Leopold von Ranke
Historian -
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher -
Max Scheler
Philosopher -
Max Weber
Sociologist -
Paul Ricoeur
Philosopher -
Robin G. Collingwood
Philosopher -
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher