Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes

#1. You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it's a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

David Grossman

#2. 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

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

#4. Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Wally Lamb

#5. The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#6. 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

#7. (3) Singing can help us use words to demonstrate and express our unity, which means singing songs that unite us instead of divide us, recognizing that musical creativity in the church has functional limits and that it is ultimately the gospel, not music, that unites us in Christ.

John Piper

#8. 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

#9. Paradox is a characteristic of truth.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#10. We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

Jonah Lehrer

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

#13. Awaiting within us is something beyond our thoughts and beliefs.

Tyler J. Hebert

#14. 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

#15. A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew.

Wes Fesler

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it.

Rita Rudner

#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. What man is, only his history tells.

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. 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

#24. 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

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting.
No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.

Mary Barnett Gilson

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

#30. Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

G. Edward Griffin

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

#33. Future is an enemy territory; we cannot know what will happen to us over there!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. 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

#35. In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

Thomas Reid

#36. I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

Andrew Jackson

#37. 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

#38. If your customers are demanding, be thankful.

Ron Kaufman

#39. 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

#40. A truce to philosophy! - Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

Mary Shelley