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- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac
- All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. — Honore de Balzac
- When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. — Alexis de Tocqueville
- From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. — Wilhelm Dilthey
- In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects. — Wilhelm Dilthey
- Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences. — Wilhelm Dilthey