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.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:41]

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.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:49]

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.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:33]

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.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:23]

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:12]