Husserl, Edmund

Philosopher German 1859 – 1938

Founded phenomenology as rigorous philosophical science.

373 quotes

"Consciousness is always already intentional."
Knowledge
"The transcendental reduction is not skeptical withdrawal."
Wisdom
"Objects are given through adumbration."
Knowledge
"Phenomenology is the foundation of all philosophy."
Philosophy
"The ego is present in all mental acts."
Life
"Reason seeks universal essences."
Knowledge
"The natural world appears through multiple perspectives."
Truth
"Phenomenology recovers the meaning of being."
Philosophy
"Consciousness constitutes the world through intentionality."
Wisdom
"The transcendental ego is the necessary unity of consciousness."
Knowledge
"Every experience has a temporal structure."
Time
"Phenomenology discloses what science presupposes."
Science
"Intersubjective meanings are socially constituted."
Relationships
"The world is my world."
Philosophy
"Science without phenomenology is blind."
Wisdom
"The transcendental field is infinite."
Knowledge
"Imagination is freedom from actuality."
Imagination
"Phenomenology seeks the invariant structures of consciousness."
Philosophy
"The object is the pole of intentional acts."
Knowledge
"Truth is the adequation of meaning with intuition."
Truth
"The lifeworld is the universal ground of meaning."
Wisdom
"Phenomenology is transcendental idealism."
Philosophy
"Every consciousness is intentional consciousness."
Knowledge
"The transcendental structures universal essence."
Philosophy
"Being and consciousness are correlative."
Knowledge
"The world is constituted in consciousness."
Wisdom
"Phenomenology begins with wonder about what we think we know."
Education
"All appearances point to an underlying essence."
Truth
"The phenomenological attitude is a radical philosophical stance."
Philosophy
"Consciousness is the access to all reality."
Knowledge