Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
From Wilhelm Dilthey
In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
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.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
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.
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.
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
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