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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

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

"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."

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

"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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