Franz Brentano

“Every mental phenomenon includes something as object within itself, although they do not all do so in the same way. In presentation something is presented, in judgment something is affirmed or denied, in love loved, in hate hated, in desire desired and so on.”

“The true method of philosophy is the method of the natural sciences.”

“Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional (or mental) inexistence of an object, and what we might call... reference to a content, direction toward an object... or immanent objectivity.”

“Every psychical phenomenon is a presentation or is based upon a presentation.”

“Consciousness is always consciousness of something.”

“We can say that the sound is the primary object of the hearing, and that the hearing itself is the secondary object.”

“Truth is what is evident.”

“The data of consciousness are the only data we have.”

“That which is loved is loved as good.”

“The ethical is what is preferable.”

“A judgment is not a combination of representations.”

“No one can doubt that the painter's imagination is in a certain way active in the production of his work.”

“There is no seeing without a seen, no hearing without a heard.”