Phenomenology Quotes

Contrary to what phenomenology—which is always phenomenology of perception—has tried to make us beli...

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a...

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific ins...

Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every ...

Ontically, of course, Dasein is not only close to us―even that which is closest: we *are* it, each o...

Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological pr...

We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; ...

The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of...

Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the sa...

As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in t...

So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that th...

Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perce...

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, ...

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but t...

The body is our general medium for having a world.

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The chi...

Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together ag...

Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in ...

The third preliminary problem for every theory of reality is that of the experience of transcendence...

It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive compone...

What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a pluralit...

Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] ca...

We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," ...

All that is worthy of love [*die Liebenswürdigkeiten*], from the viewpoint of God's comprehensive lo...

It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent o...

In Leibniz we can already find the striking observation that *cogitatur ergo est* is no less evident...

One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essent...

The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality,...

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the mo...

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen whic...

We must listen to poets.