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"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."
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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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"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head."
"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
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