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

Religious, Changes, Line

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

Nature, Human, Reality

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, Thought, Reason

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Remains, Phenomenon, External

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

Experience, Science, Human

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

Feeling, Real, Thinking

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

Religion, Healing, Bring

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Human, Both, Plan

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Philosophy, Concern, Object

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

Society, Knowledge, Become

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

Nature, Experience, Science

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

Time, History, Society

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

Whole, Means, Natural

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

Human, Reality, Self

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

Experience, Knowledge, Human

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

Important, Decision, Different

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

Find, Light, Expression

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, Before, Another

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Knowledge, School, Human

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

Knowledge, Science, Eyes

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Historian

Born: November 19, 1833

Died: October 1, 1911

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