Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

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.

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.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

I must achieve internal consistency.

Experience by itself is not science.