Quotes by Edmund Husserl

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

“Experience by itself is not science.”

“Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is...”

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

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

“A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the m...”

“To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and th...”

“... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.”

“First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must once in his life withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, h...”

“Whoever wishes to define the conceptual invariants of natural beauty would make himself as ridiculous as Husserl did when he reports that while ambulating he perceived the green freshness of the la...”

“Husserl has shown that man's prejudices go a great deal deeper than his intellect or his emotions. Consciousness itself is 'prejudiced' — that is to say, intentional.”

“A child might be overawed by a great city, but a civil engineer knows that he might demolish it and rebuild it himself. Husserl's philosophy has the same aim: to show us that, although we may have ...”

“No one in our century has raised the call for philosophy as a rigorous science with such clarity, purity, vigor, and breadth as Husserl.”