Edmund Husserl

All perception is a gamble.

— Edmund Husserl

“Zu den Sachen selbst!”

— Edmund Husserl

I must achieve internal consistency.

— Edmund Husserl

Experience by itself is not science.

— Edmund Husserl

All consciousness is consciousness of something

— Edmund Husserl

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

— Edmund Husserl

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

— Edmund Husserl

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

— Edmund Husserl

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is…

— Edmund Husserl

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness…

— Edmund Husserl

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

— Edmund Husserl

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

— Edmund Husserl

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each…

— Edmund Husserl

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from…

— Edmund Husserl

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

— Edmund Husserl

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us…

— Edmund Husserl

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including…

— Edmund Husserl

“I seek not to instruct but only to lead, to point out and describe what I see. I claim no other right…

— Edmund Husserl

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event…

— Edmund Husserl

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from…

— Edmund Husserl

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as…

— Edmund Husserl

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from…

— Edmund Husserl

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an…

— Edmund Husserl

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical…

— Edmund Husserl

“First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to…

— Edmund Husserl

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion…

— Edmund Husserl

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object…

— Edmund Husserl

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

— Edmund Husserl

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

— Edmund Husserl

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

— Edmund Husserl