Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

Quotes

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

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

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

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

- Wilhelm Dilthey

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

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