Edmund Husserl Quotes


In a few decades of reconstruction even the mathematical natural sciences the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection have changed habit completely!

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

I must achieve internal consistency.

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it including the actuality of my body the body of the cognizing subject.

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness in its own absolute Being.

Natural objects for example must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Without troublesome work no one can have any concrete full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.

Within this widest concept of object and specifically within the concept of individual object Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

Experience by itself is not science.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Philosophers as things now stand are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

All perception is a gamble.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise I could not live in this world.

Philosophy as science as serious rigorous indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

To begin with we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.