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"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."
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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."


"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."


"The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."
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