Husserl, Edmund

Philosopher German 1859 – 1938

Founded phenomenology as rigorous philosophical science.

373 quotes

"The world is not something independent of consciousness."
Philosophy
"Consciousness is always consciousness of something."
Knowledge
"To the things themselves!"
Truth
"Phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness."
Science
"The natural attitude must be bracketed to understand reality."
Wisdom
"Reduction is the path to transcendental consciousness."
Philosophy
"Intentionality is the fundamental feature of consciousness."
Knowledge
"We must return to the immediate experience of phenomena."
Truth
"The transcendental ego constitutes the world."
Philosophy
"Essence can be grasped through phenomenological reflection."
Wisdom
"Time consciousness is the foundation of all experience."
Time
"Every mental act is directed toward an object."
Knowledge
"The lifeworld is the ground of all scientific inquiry."
Science
"Intersubjectivity bridges individual consciousnesses."
Relationships
"The life of the mind is an eternal becoming."
Life
"Imagination reveals essential possibilities."
Imagination
"Pure consciousness can be isolated through epoché."
Philosophy
"Meaning emerges through intentional acts of consciousness."
Knowledge
"We must distinguish between noesis and noema."
Wisdom
"The subject and object are correlatives in consciousness."
Philosophy
"Reflection reveals the structure of consciousness."
Knowledge
"History is the history of transcendental consciousness."
History
"Genuine philosophy begins with radical doubt."
Truth
"The crisis of European sciences stems from forgetting the lifeworld."
Education
"Phenomenology seeks apodictic evidence."
Wisdom
"Objects appear through successive perspectives."
Knowledge
"The transcendental reduction is a method of philosophical clarification."
Philosophy
"Consciousness constitutes temporal objects."
Time
"Essences are accessible through eidetic intuition."
Knowledge
"The ego is the pole of all acts."
Philosophy