I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
Edmund HusserlRead
I must achieve internal consistency.
Interpretation
Internal consistency refers to the coherence of one's beliefs and thoughts.
Edmund Husserl emphasizes the importance of achieving internal consistency, which means that an individual's beliefs, thoughts, and actions must be aligned and coherent. This philosophical stance highlights the necessity for a unified perspective in order to attain clarity and understanding in one's life, ultimately leading to a more profound grasp of reality and existence.
In practice
This quote can be used in a philosophical discussion or debate on personal beliefs.
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
Experience by itself is not science.
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.
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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.
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.
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.
Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician
Faith is the highest passion in a man.
Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
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