If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

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

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

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

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.

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