Dilthey Wilhelm Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a hat person. I really don't like wearing things on my head. — Kylie Bax

In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless. — Aristotle.

Paradox is a characteristic of truth. — Wilhelm Dilthey

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

You see, every man is a safe, a vault of secrets and longings. Now, there are those who take the brute's way, but I prefer a gentler approach- the right pressure applied at the right moment, in the right place. It's a delicate thing. — Leigh Bardugo

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

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. — Horace

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

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

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

I'm sorry, Aido.
Always having to put up with homeless me must be very taxing. — Matsuri Hino

I walked over to Drake and stomped on his foot. Hard. "What will I give you to
help me? What will I give you?"
He stood on one leg rubbing his foot, grinning a grin so steamy, it almost melted
my underwear. "I never doubted you would defeat her. You are my mate. You
could do no less."
I pointed a finger at him. "You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially
de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight.
Naked. Your place. But after that, no more. — Katie MacAlister

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

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

The ambassador was part of the special remedial dating program," Jeeves explained. "All of the other species on the station sign up with a dating service to find their best match, but some humans can't coherently describe what they want for breakfast, much less for the rest of their lives. — E.M. Foner

It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along... — John Darnielle

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

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards]. — Ice-T

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

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

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

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

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

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth. — Osho

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

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

Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment. — Seth Godin

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

That our affections kill us not, nor dye. — John Donne

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

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

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

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

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

And my heart and soul is your heart and soul. I am Santiago the shepherd boy in search of my treasure, just as you are Santiago the shepherd bot in search of your own. — Paulo Coelho

What man is, only his history tells. — Wilhelm Dilthey

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

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