Wisdom Quotes

"Phenomenology seeks apodictic evidence."

"Passive synthesis structures experience."

"The transcendental goes beyond the merely psychological."

"The natural standpoint conceals transcendental structures."

"Subjectivity is not a limitation but the foundation of knowledge."

"Phenomenology seeks to make the implicit explicit."

"The transcendental reduction is not skeptical withdrawal."

"Consciousness constitutes the world through intentionality."

"Science without phenomenology is blind."

"The lifeworld is the universal ground of meaning."

"The world is constituted in consciousness."

"The transcendental reduction opens the realm of pure consciousness."

"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

"Building, dwelling, thinking—these need each other."

"Listening is even more difficult than looking."

"Calculative thinking is not meditative thinking."

"Releasement opens us to the mystery of existence."

"Language speaks us more than we speak language."

"Moods are not internal states but ways of being in the world."

"The deepest poverty is not to be destitute but to have no destiny."

"Care is the most elemental structure of human being."

"Questioning is the piety of thinking."

"We are not the masters of language but its servants."

"Boredom reveals the nothingness underlying existence."

"The capacity to think clearly and deeply is more important than the information we possess."

"Learning from experience is a risky business; yet it is the only reliable method."

"Thinking is the act and power of using concepts to solve the problems that arise in experience."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time."

"We do not learn by experience, we learn by reflecting on experience."

"The most insidious error that we fall into is the notion that intelligence is a ready-made quality."