"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."

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"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."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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Explore more quotes by Wilhelm Dilthey

"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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"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."

Writing

"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."

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"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."

Concern

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

Religion

"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."

Science

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

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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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