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

— Edmund Husserl

All perception is a gamble.

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

Experience by itself is not science.

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— 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