Dilthey, Wilhelm

"We do not understand things until we have experienced them."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"The human sciences are concerned with the understanding of life."

"History is the science of what has been."

"Understanding is the goal of the human sciences."

"Man can only understand man through history."

"The greatest historians are those who understand the human heart."

"Every individual contains a universe."

"Poetry expresses the fullness of human experience."

"The work of art is a manifestation of the human spirit."

"Art is the expression of inner life."

"Music speaks what cannot be spoken."

"Culture is the accumulated experience of humanity."

"Understanding requires sympathy and imagination."

"The past lives within us."

"Truth emerges from lived experience."

"We are historical beings."

"Freedom is the essence of human existence."

"The individual is both unique and universal."

"Education is the cultivation of the human spirit."

"Knowledge comes from understanding, not mere information."

"The humanities reveal the human condition."

"Time shapes all human understanding."

"Literature is the mirror of life."

"Philosophy must begin with experience."

"The meaning of life is found through understanding."

"Imagination is essential to all understanding."

"We cannot separate thought from experience."

"The human spirit strives for understanding."

"Religion expresses the deepest human longings."