Occupation: Philosopher Birth: April 8, 1859 Death: April 26, 1938
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within..
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 ha….
All consciousness is consciousness of something.
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….
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness..
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each oth….
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes ….
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit comp….
All perception is a gamble..
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….
Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being..
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception..
Experience by itself is not science..
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….
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world..
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible..
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the l….
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people..
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over..
I must achieve internal consistency..
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….