Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur. Edmund Husserl More Quotes by Edmund Husserl More Quotes From Edmund Husserl I must achieve internal consistency. Edmund Husserl consistencyinternalsachieve To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. Edmund Husserl phenomenologypropositionsconsciousness I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world. Edmund Husserl this-worldworld Experience by itself is not science. Edmund Husserl All perception is a gamble. Edmund Husserl gambleperception We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. Edmund Husserl nastykindwould-be The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception. Edmund Husserl time-managementdurationperception The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness. Edmund Husserl phenomenologypsychologyconsciousness All consciousness is consciousness of something Edmund Husserl consciousness To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. Edmund Husserl phenomenologywould-behands What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection. Edmund Husserl essentialsmomentsreflection Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being. Edmund Husserl glancesinquiryconsciousness Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people. Edmund Husserl factspeople Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. Edmund Husserl understandingofferingcriticism Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over. Edmund Husserl seriousdreamphilosophy 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. Edmund Husserl fatesoulspiritual In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! Edmund Husserl ancienthabitperfection Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. Edmund Husserl phenomenologynamesfirsts 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. Edmund Husserl mathematicalresearchideas Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other. Edmund Husserl contrastobjectsindividual
