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

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

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

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

All consciousness is consciousness of something

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

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.