“Take no one’s word for anything, including mine - but trust your experience.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“But enough of phenomenology; it is nothing more than the solitary, endless monologue of consciousness, a hard-core autism that no real cat… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“What resists phenomenology within us--natural being, the 'barbarian' source Schelling spoke of--cannot remain outside phenomenology. The philosopher must bear his shadow, which… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“What a weary way since that first disaster, what nerves torn from the heart of insentience, with the appertaining terror and the… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“I seek not to instruct but only to lead, to point out and describe what I see. I claim no other right… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essential nature) can,… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“The relation to the other is not epistemological, but ethical, and the whole attempt to accomodate or account for the other within… — David R. Cerbone Copy Share Image
“Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality'… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," that one ought not speak of an "origin"… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.” — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“English: "The manner of clouding our past interiority is similar to the manner of clouding the interiority of others." Česky: „Způsob zamlžení… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use… — William Wilson Morgan Copy Share Image
“This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the… — Eugene Taylor Copy Share Image