“I must achieve internal consistency.”
― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”
― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
“Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.”
― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
"I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world."
― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
"We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible."
― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
"All consciousness is consciousness of something"
― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
"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 (1859-1938)
"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 (1859-1938)
"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 (1859-1938)