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"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."
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"It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter."

"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."

"A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern."

"Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them."

"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."

"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."

"Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment."

"Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together."

"I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common."
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"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."


"No 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."


"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."
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