#WilhelmDilthey

“He wanted to do for history what Kant had done for natural science — write a Critique of Historical Reason — and though he never finished it, every historian, sociologist, and psychologist who says "you have to understand it from their point of view" is living in the house he framed.”

“Studying people is not like studying rocks. Nature we explain from the outside with causal laws; human life we understand from the inside, through the meanings people live by — and the human sciences need their own foundation, as rigorous as physics but built differently.”