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 foundationMore Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:07]

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.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:44]

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]

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]

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]