25 Quotes by Wilhelm Dilthey

Paradox is a characteristic of truth.

What man is, only his history tells.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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