Wilhelm Dilthey > Quotes

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

“نحن نفسر الطبيعة, أما الإنسان فإن علينا أن نفهمه”
― Wilhelm Dilthey

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

“Paradox is a characteristic of truth.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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