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]

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 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:28]

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:59]

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:13]