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Wilhelm Dilthey, born on November 19, 1833, and died on October 1, 1911, was a prominent German psychologist. He is considered a representative figure of German cultural philosophy and phenomenology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his profound insights into human behavior and psychology.

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Famous Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes

“The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.”

Important Different Individual Realizing Decision Taken Possibility Development Decision Making Important Decisions

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“What man is, only his history tells.”

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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.”

Feels Humans Self Whole Hands Reality Given Human Beings Certitude

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

“Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.”

Hands Religious Lines Movement Ancient Thinker Dominant Metaphysics Medieval Theological

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

“From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.”

World Perspective Remains Mere Phenomenon Representation

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

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

Ifs Humans Would Be Understanding Human Beings Aim Anthropology Totality

Author:Wilhelm Dilthey

“All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.”

Consciousness Conditions Arise Related Totality Validity

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

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

Healing Pieces Cutting Historical Knives Metaphysics Relativism

Author: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.”

Humans Reality Spirit Human Nature Theory Historical Human Spirit Disregard Totality

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

“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.”

Real Reason Knowing Blood Subjects Activity Flow Mere Veins Hume Blood Flow

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

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

Thinking Different Real Feelings Process Willing Aspect Real Life

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

“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.”

Force Causes Progress Civilization Healthy Resources Concern Promoting Upheaval

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

“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.”

Ifs World Mean Whole Force Natural Known Nuclear Fixed Atoms Natural Science

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

“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.”

World Way Humans Matter Facts Existence Limits Settling Inherent Subordination

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

“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.”

Matter Reality Subjects Relation Foundation Historical Seeking Subject Matter Systematic

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

About the Author

Born: November 19, 1833
Died: October 1, 1911
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 15

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