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.
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.
When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?
Every time I see the bumper sticker that says βWe think weβre humans having spiritual experiences, but weβre really spirits having human experiences,β I (a) think itβs true and (b) want to ram the car.
People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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