Heinrich Rickert Quotes on Knowledge
Heinrich Rickert was a German neo-Kantian philosopher of the Baden school and, with Wilhelm Windelband, the principal theorist of the distinction between the natural sciences and the cultural or historical sciences. This page collects quotes attributed to Heinrich Rickert on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Heinrich Rickert:
“Natural science generalizes; cultural science individualizes.”
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Attributed to Heinrich Rickert:
“Values are the form in which the cultural world becomes intelligible.”
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Attributed to Heinrich Rickert:
“Philosophy is the science of the whole.”
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Attributed to Heinrich Rickert:
“Concept formation is the work in which the human mind grasps the world.”
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Attributed to Heinrich Rickert:
“Without reference to value, history would be a heap of dates.”