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Roman Ingarden Quotes on Knowledge

Roman Ingarden was a Polish philosopher and a student of Edmund Husserl, the most distinguished representative of phenomenology in twentieth-century Polish philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Roman Ingarden on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Roman Ingarden:

    “The literary work of art is a stratified, intentional formation.”

  • Attributed to Roman Ingarden:

    “Every work of art has a structure of distinct strata that interact in the experience of the reader.”

  • Attributed to Roman Ingarden:

    “The reader concretizes the work in the act of reading.”

  • Attributed to Roman Ingarden:

    “Aesthetic value is not added to the work; it is already there to be discovered.”