Maurice Natanson

"We mistake abstraction for truth, forgetting that abstraction always leaves something out."

"The promise of phenomenology is to return us to lived experience itself."

"To be a stranger in one's own culture is to gain critical perspective."

"The moral dimension of life cannot be separated from its existential dimension."

"We are always interpreting ourselves to ourselves and to others."

"Authenticity is not a state to be achieved but a constant struggle."

"The world we inhabit is fundamentally plural and perspectival."

"We transform the world not through domination but through understanding."

"The human being is the creature who must decide what it means to be human."

"Consciousness cannot be adequately explained in purely objective terms."

"We are thrown into a world we did not choose and must make meaning nonetheless."

"The gift of language is that it allows us to share the private realm of experience."

"To philosophize is to learn how to die, not literally but existentially."

"The meaning of life is not discovered but created through living it."