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Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context Picture Quote #1

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon Picture Quote #1

What man is, only his history tells Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences Picture Quote #1

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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 (Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes) 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 Quotes) However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. (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 Dilthey Quotes) From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon (Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes) What man is, only his history tells (Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes) 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 Quotes) The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing (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 Dilthey Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes) Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences (Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes)