Aron Gurwitsch

Phenomenologist Russian-American 1901 – 1973

Developed phenomenology of perception; influenced American philosophy profoundly.

425 quotes

"The structure of experience reveals the structure of being itself."
Wisdom
"To understand the phenomenal field is to understand human existence."
Philosophy
"Appearance and essence are woven together in perception."
Science
"The margin of consciousness is as important as its center."
Knowledge
"Objects present themselves through successive profiles in time."
Philosophy
"Intentionality is the fundamental structure of all consciousness."
Wisdom
"The perceptual world exceeds the sum of its sensory components."
Knowledge
"Meaning is not projected onto experience but discovered within it."
Truth
"The organization of the phenomenal field determines what can be known."
Philosophy
"Consciousness is always consciousness of something."
Wisdom
"The lived world has a structure that phenomenology can illuminate."
Education
"Attention transforms the field without changing its fundamental nature."
Science
"Objects appear to us in degrees of clarity and distinctness."
Philosophy
"The threshold between awareness and non-awareness is never sharp."
Knowledge
"Experience organizes itself according to structures we gradually discern."
Wisdom
"The phenomenal field is ordered by our existential concerns."
Philosophy
"To see truly is to see the relational structure of all things."
Truth
"Consciousness constitutes meaning through its directedness."
Knowledge
"The world reveals itself only to a consciousness that questions it."
Philosophy
"Perception participates in the creation of experienced reality."
Art
"The structure of awareness mirrors the structure of the world."
Wisdom
"Every phenomenal appearance carries with it an implicit horizon."
Philosophy
"Understanding requires attending to the lived dimensions of experience."
Education
"The center of the field is always defined against its periphery."
Science
"Consciousness reaches toward a reality that perpetually exceeds it."
Knowledge
"The organization of experience is not arbitrary but structured by meaning."
Philosophy
"To attend is to let something become central to our awareness."
Wisdom
"The phenomenal world is the only world we can meaningfully discuss."
Truth
"Objects disclose themselves progressively through multiple perspectives."
Knowledge
"Intentionality binds consciousness to the world in essential ways."
Philosophy