1. “Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before theorizing about them can occur.”
2. “Within this widest concept of object and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.”
3. “I must achieve internal consistency.”
4. “Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-mined people.”
5. “The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.”
6. “I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I ould not live in this world.”
7. “We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.”
8. “All consciousness is consciousness of something.”
9. “Experience by itself is not science.”
10. “All perception is a gamble.”
11. “To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”
12. “Direct the glance of apprehension and inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute being.”
13. “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.”
14. “All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose developments and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.”
15. “Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism rom on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.”
