All Quotes

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. ”

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. ”

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

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point. ”

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. ”

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of 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. ”

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. ”

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. ”

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision. ”