Edmund Husserl Quotes
Edmund Husserl was a German philosopher of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the founder of phenomenology and one of the most influential figures of modern European thought. Trained in mathematics, he developed phenomenology as a rigorous descriptive science of the structures of consciousness and lived experience, beginning with the Logical Investigations of 1900-1901 and elaborated through Ideas and the Cartesian Meditations. The quotes below are attributed to Edmund Husserl, organized by topic.
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Edmund Husserl on Knowledge
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“Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.”
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“Phenomenology is the science of essences.”
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“The true beginning of philosophy is the radical reflection upon what one is taking for granted.”
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“A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology , has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the modern sciences. All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.”
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“... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.”
Experience by itself is not science. -
“Experience by itself is not science.”
... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.
Edmund Husserl on Life
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“First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.”
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Edmund Husserl on Mind
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“Consciousness is always consciousness of something.”
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“Reason is the specific characteristic of man, as a being living in personal activities.”
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“I take my standpoint above all such pre-given being.”
Edmund Husserl on Truth
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“Back to the things themselves.”
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“To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.”
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