I must achieve internal consistency.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

All perception is a gamble.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Experience by itself is not science.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

All consciousness is consciousness of something

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

U will have success where you diligently labor

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I came up from a difficult background.

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.