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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.
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
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.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
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.
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.
Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.
If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
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