“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
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
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
“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
I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife. — Edward Abbey 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
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works. — Terence McKenna 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive component necessarily ingredient in… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“The reason I said earlier that the mind is neither the Cartesian, highly intellectualized, cranium-confined firm-and-frozen ego, nor the self-effaced, world-immersed, flowing,… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
“I apprehend and see in all of them that they are in their own eyes (für sich selbst) only these independent beings… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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
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
“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
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation. — Stephen Jay Gould 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
“I am, a spectator, so to speak of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used… — Colin Wilson 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
“Phenomenology became the grounds for variants of standpoint epistemology: if a phenomenon seems real, then it is real enough. A Marxist vision… — Holly Lewis Copy Share Image
![“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of being from which the principle of immanence-to-consciousness (the starting point of Idealism and Critical Realism) mistakenly proceeds as though from a primary…” quote by Max Scheler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65c/max-scheler-21013_epistemology_only-after-the-concept-of-knowledge-has_492525.jpg)
![“But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that…” quote by Robert Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/955/robert-barry-3413_art_but-if-i-did-read-say-maurice-merleau-po_2511305.jpg)
