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"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."
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"The history of man is a must read poetry."
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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"
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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."
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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."
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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
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"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."
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"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."
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"The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods."
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"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."
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"Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature."
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"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."
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"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."
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"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."
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"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."
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"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."
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