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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

~Wilhelm Dilthey

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Historian

Born: November 19th, 1833

Died: October 1st, 1911

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