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Wilhelm Windelband Quotes on Knowledge

Wilhelm Windelband was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy and the founder, with Heinrich Rickert, of the Southwest German School of neo-Kantianism. This page collects quotes attributed to Wilhelm Windelband on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Wilhelm Windelband:

    “The natural sciences are nomothetic; the historical sciences are idiographic.”

  • Attributed to Wilhelm Windelband:

    “History deals with the singular and unique, science with the general and recurrent.”

  • Attributed to Wilhelm Windelband:

    “Philosophy is the science of the universally valid values.”

  • Attributed to Wilhelm Windelband:

    “To understand Kant is to go beyond him.”