Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes

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

Wilhelm Dilthey

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• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Free
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• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
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• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Live
  • Dream
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• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Internet
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• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • World
  • Law
  • Day

• For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Style

• That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Powerful
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• People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
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• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  

  Barack Obama
  • You
  • Stop
  • Over

• I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Hair
  • First

• When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Know
  • Respect

• How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale:'Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others,Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths

• Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • School
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• Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

  

  Cynthia P. Schneider
  • People
  • Book
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• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  

  Geoffrey West
  • Science
  • Powerful

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• Everyone wrote me off, including me.

  

  James Arthur

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

  

  Wilhelm Dilthey
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Understanding