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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

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.

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.

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.

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.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

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

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

Everything is always a little surreal.

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.

When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Minnesotans are ticket splitters. They look to the candidate, not the party, which is the way it should be, and that's only going to help me.

I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing.

I've always wanted to be an action figure.

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

Career-wise, there are so many things where you don't get what you think you want. I've had to make space for, 'Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?' Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.