Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.