Edmund Husserl

internal consistency

“I must achieve internal consistency.”

― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)

phenomenology consciousness

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

― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)

fact-minded science people

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

― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)

philosophize live world

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

― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)

nasty position empirical science

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

― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)

consciousness something

"All consciousness is consciousness of something"

― Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)

phenomenology psychology consciousness

"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)

philosopher criticism high understanding from within

"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)

object phenomenon contrast

"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)