I must achieve internal consistency.
Edmund HusserlRead
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of different types of knowledge beyond just empirical science.
Edmund Husserl suggests that relying solely on empirical science would limit our understanding of the world. He argues for the recognition of different forms of scientific inquiry, including phenomenology and rational thought, which provide deeper insights into human experience and existence that empirical methods alone cannot capture.
Themes
ScienceEmpiricalPhilosophyKnowledgeUnderstanding
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a debate about the limitations of scientific methodologies.
More from Edmund Husserl
All quotes βI had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
Edmund HusserlRead
Experience by itself is not science.
Edmund HusserlRead
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.
Edmund HusserlRead
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.
Edmund HusserlRead
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.
Edmund HusserlRead
Similar quotes
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.
Louis OrrRead
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Henry JamesRead
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.
Marcus AureliusRead
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
SocratesRead
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.
William JamesRead
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead