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.

All consciousness is consciousness of something

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.

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.

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

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!