All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from … - Wilhelm Dilthey

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I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?

Wilhelm Dilthey

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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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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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.

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

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What man is, only his history tells.

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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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