Phenomenology Quotes · Page 3

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

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

“The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to…

— Martin Heidegger

“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

“In Leibniz we can already find the striking observation that *cogitatur ergo est* is no less evident than *cogito ergo sum*. Naturally,…

— Max Scheler

“Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of…

— Max Scheler

“It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent of the existential status of the objects…

— Max Scheler

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

— Terence McKenna

The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

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

I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance…

— Thomas Metzinger

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

— Stephen Jay Gould