Wilhelm Windelband Quotes on Truth
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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Wilhelm Windelband:
“The natural sciences are nomothetic; the historical sciences are idiographic.”
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Attributed to Wilhelm Windelband:
“History deals with the singular and unique, science with the general and recurrent.”
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Attributed to Wilhelm Windelband:
“Philosophy is the science of the universally valid values.”
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Attributed to Wilhelm Windelband:
“To understand Kant is to go beyond him.”
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Attributed to Wilhelm Windelband:
“The ought, not the is, is the proper object of philosophy.”