Wilhelm Dilthey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 Dilthey

#Civilization #Healthy #Progress
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 Dilthey

#Taken #Decision #Important
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 Dilthey

#World #Matter #Way
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 Dilthey

#Mean #World #Atoms
In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
-- Wilhelm Dilthey

#Real #Thinking #Feelings
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 Dilthey

#Real #Blood #Knowing
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 Dilthey

#Reality #Historical #Spirit
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
-- Wilhelm Dilthey

#Healing #Cutting #Knives
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 Dilthey

#Consciousness #Arise
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

#Understanding #Would Be #Anthropology
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
-- Wilhelm Dilthey

#Perspective #World #Phenomenon
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 Dilthey

#Religious #Hands #Movement
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 Dilthey

#Reality #Self #Hands
What man is, only his history tells.
-- Wilhelm Dilthey

#Men #History
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 Dilthey

#Reality #Historical #Systematic

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