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American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies. Tony Judt

Life Government Degree Relatively Exactly Small Economic Most Inequality Arrangements Opposite Conditions Role American Public American Life Social Forth American Public Public Life European Compares Societies Played

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation. Tony Judt

You World Better Nothing Way Crippled See Some Develop Clearer Said Nor Being Skills Special Compensation Set

When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too. Tony Judt

Me You Better Too Everything Give Classroom Well Bloody Get

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life. Tony Judt

Life You Else Everything Everything Else Take Israel Line Apparently

Reality is a powerful solvent. Tony Judt

Reality Solvent Powerful

I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life. Tony Judt

Culture Reflection Seems Simply Majority Want Popular Popular Culture

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world. Victor Davis Hanson

World Nation Most Still America Century Even Third

The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense. Victor Davis Hanson

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. Wilhelm Dilthey

Knowledge Progress Become Healthy Society Our Resources Rule Promoting Vital Civilization Concern Forces Causes Produced

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. Wilhelm Dilthey

Nature Science Experience Related Back Our Validity Must Totality Arises Context Conditions Which Derives Consciousness

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. Wilhelm Dilthey

World Perspective Only Remains Mere Always Representation External External World Phenomenon

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences. Wilhelm Dilthey

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. Wilhelm Dilthey

Thought Extract Diluted Locke Rather Constructed Mere Veins Knowing Real Subject Blood Kant Reason Activity Flows

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. Wilhelm Dilthey

Reality Human Being Own Other Wills Given Self Simultaneously Feels His Hand Human Represents Being Much Certitude Who Whole External

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. Wilhelm Dilthey

Better Light Validated Adequate Find Rational Could New Doctrine Scientific Were Methods Substance Experiences Psychology Which Lived Expression Now

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. Wilhelm Dilthey

Knowledge World School System Independent Spirit Thus Principles Within Sciences Falls Accordance Historical Itself Human Form

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. Wilhelm Dilthey

Knowledge Science Eyes Own Other Gaze Eye Would Would-Be Seeing Directing Attempt Like Without Than Modern Behind Modern Science Acknowledge

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