Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

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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

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.

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

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

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

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