Edmund Husserl famous quotes

07-13-2025

I must achieve internal consistency.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Consistency #Achieve #Internals
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Phenomenology #Consciousness
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Would Be #Nasty #Kind
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
-- Edmund Husserl

#World #This World
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Example #Natural
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Dream #Philosophy #Serious
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

#Hands #Would Be #Virtue
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

#Psychology #Phenomenology #Consciousness
Experience by itself is not science.
-- Edmund Husserl
Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Inquiry #Consciousness #Glances
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

#Offering #Understanding #Criticism
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

#Reflection #Essentials #Moments
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Events #World #Way
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
-- Edmund Husserl

#Perfection #Ancient #Habit
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

#Individual #Contrast
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Different #Consciousness #Conscious
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Perception #Duration #Time Management
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

#Names #Firsts #Phenomenology
All consciousness is consciousness of something
-- Edmund Husserl

#Consciousness
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
-- Edmund Husserl

#Animal #Reality #Law
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

#Spiritual #Fate #Soul
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

#Ideas #Research #Mathematical

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