Occupation: Philosopher Birth: April 8, 1859 Death: April 26, 1938
Experience by itself is not science..
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each oth….
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the l….
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible..
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as th….
I must achieve internal consistency..
All perception is a gamble..
The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at….
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….
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over..
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes ….
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 ref….
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit comp….
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 es….
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….
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception..
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world..
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people..
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness..
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur..
Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being..