Quotes about Phenomenology

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Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickn — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings
We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a way of putti — Martin Heidegger
Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view of th — Martin Heidegger
Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of everyday Dasein―a ki — Martin Heidegger
Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in b — Max Scheler
What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a plurality of acts and the id — Max Scheler
It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive component necessarily ingre — Max Scheler
The third preliminary problem for every theory of reality is that of the experience of transcendence. We saw in the case — Max Scheler
It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent of the existential st — Max Scheler
So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only a — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the pa — Max Scheler
We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," that one ought not s — Max Scheler
All that is worthy of love [*die Liebenswürdigkeiten*], from the viewpoint of God's comprehensive love, might have been — Max Scheler
In Leibniz we can already find the striking observation that *cogitatur ergo est* is no less evident than *cogito ergo s — Max Scheler, Selected Philosophical Essays
One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essential nature) can, in — Max Scheler, Selected Philosophical Essays
We must listen to poets. — Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together again by thought. Lang — Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Signs
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank — Gaston Bachelard
It is the right of the positive scientist, the logician, the mathematician, and the physicist, to remain within his scie — Aron Gurwitsch, Phenomenology and Theory of Science