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

- 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

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

- 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 t…

- 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…

- 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 acti…

- Wilhelm Dilthey

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations t…

- Wilhelm Dilthey

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movem…

- 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…

- Wilhelm Dilthey