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 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.Wilhelm Dilthey
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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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The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
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We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
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