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

Quote by Edmund Husserl

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

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...

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical...

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make...

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make...

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness...

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness...

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of...

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of...

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects...

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects...

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

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

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that...

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that...

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in...

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in...

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally,...

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally,...

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure...

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure...

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

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

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its...

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its...

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of...

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of...

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon,...

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon,...

Experience by itself is not science.

Experience by itself is not science.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the...

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the...

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness...

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness...