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 DiltheyNo 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.
Wilhelm DiltheyA 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.
Wilhelm DiltheyThe 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.
Wilhelm Dilthey