Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I must achieve internal consistency.