I&#39;ve had aunts and uncles who not only haven&#39;t read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

The reason why you do something should always be much stronger than yourself satisfaction.

I don’t know what came over me. Don’t be offended, but sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?” I shrugged. “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

Edmund Husserl

Quotes by Edmund Husserl

Written By Edmund Husserl

Written By Edmund Husserl

Written By Edmund Husserl

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