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.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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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.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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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.
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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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.
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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.
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
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You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
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Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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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.
