Phenomenology famous quotes

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

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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
-- Edmund Husserl

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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
-- Edmund Husserl

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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
-- Siri Hustvedt

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Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.
-- William Wilson Morgan

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I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.
-- Thomas Metzinger

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When I grow up I wanna be like Omar
You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.
I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever offered -- that truth which we can all find, if we will but seek in things, not in words; in nature, not in human imagination; in our own hearts, not in temples made with hands.