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.
Category Archive: 1833
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.
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
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.
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.
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time – well into the eighteenth century.
The knife of historical relativism… which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.