Phenomenology Quotes

“To the things themselves!”

“Consciousness is consciousness of something.”

“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”

“We must not, therefore, wonder whether we really perceive a world, we must instead say: the world is what we perceive.”

“Feeling is a quality of immediate consciousness.”

“The sound is the experience.”

“To begin with, we must put out of action all the convictions we have been carrying along with us, even our scientific convictions.”

“The goal is not to explain the world, but to see it.”

“Pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”

“The body is our general medium for having a world.”

“In short, the world is not what I think, but what I live through. I am open to the world, I have no doubt that I am in communication with it, but I do not possess it; it is inexhaustible.”