Dilthey Quotes

#1. With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

William Least Heat-Moon

#2. I don't think I've ever heard you laugh. Ever. You face life like it's a warrior come to chop your head off, and you're just biding your time fretting until it does. Haven't you ever heard of the power of laughter?

Noelle Crawford

#3. Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

Jan Hellriegel

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

#5. 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

#6. We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#7. Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

Bill Hicks

#8. You shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinary man.

Haruki Murakami

#9. 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

#10. I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes - and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle's.

William Shakespeare

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Paradox is a characteristic of truth.

Wilhelm Dilthey

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

#15. Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.

Monica Johnson

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Bloody hell, grandsire," were Bones's first words as he approached. "You've left behind a wreckage of burned bodies, dead vampires, missing persons, threatened Guardians, and video evidence of our race's existence. Then you go on holiday. You really do have a death wish

Jeaniene Frost

#24. 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

#25. We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the mind in comprehension. In understanding we start from the connection of the given, living whole, in order to make the past comprehensible in terms of it.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#26. Studies have shown that patients on hospice who become dehydrated in their final weeks, days, or hours, die much more comfortably than patients who are kept artificially hydrated with intravenous fluids or supplemental tube feedings.

Heidi Telpner

#27. From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#28. I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

Jacki Weaver

#29. I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

Toni Braxton

#30. There it is - a flash of relief crosses his expression. Searching for emotion in Sherlock's face is like bird watching. Ah, yes, the rare relief-bird.

Eva Morgan

#31. In the case of lived experience, there is no difference between an object that is perceived and the eye that perceives it.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#32. 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

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

#34. What man is, only his history tells.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#35. What is experienced from within cannot be categorized in concepts that have been developed for the external world of the senses.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#36. 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

#37. Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried.

Anthony Bourdain

#38. 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

#39. Tough, and square-jawed, J.C. is a cold-blooded killer. Or so he claims. I think it means he likes to murder amphibians.

Brandon Sanderson

#40. Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Annie Lennox