Edmund Husserl Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

“The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.”

“Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.”

“If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.”

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

“In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.”

“Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.”