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

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

I must achieve internal consistency.

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.

Separate yourself from the lies and illusions which are not you.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.

Typography exists to honor content.