Life Quotes

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

Wilhelm Dilthey

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Wilhelm Dilthey

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

Wilhelm Dilthey

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

Wilhelm Dilthey

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.

Wilhelm Dilthey

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

Wilhelm Dilthey

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Will Durant

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Will Durant

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Will Durant

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Will Durant

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

Will Durst

The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.

Willem Dafoe

A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.

Willem Dafoe

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factu...

Willem Dafoe

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

Willem Dafoe

I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.

Willem Dafoe

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

Willem Dafoe

I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.

Willem Dafoe