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"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."
"Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human 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."
"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."
"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."
"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context."
"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."
"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."
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"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
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