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

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In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

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Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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