Contrast Quote by Edmund Husserl

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

— John Dewey

“What is experienced from within cannot be categorized in concepts that have been developed for the external world of the senses.”

— Wilhelm Dilthey

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

— James J. Gibson

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is…

— Hans Kramers

“Even the objects in a room are not, in some sense, the same objects to another animal. A dog looking around a room does…

— Alexandra Horowitz

“The perceiver and the object, whatever the object is, or thing is, and wherever it may be, is always in coresonance with the one…

— Paul Selig

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in…

— Kazimir Malevich

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

— Edmund Husserl

For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it…

— Robert Hooke

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus…

— George Lakoff

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Concepts are mental images.

— Paul Virilio