Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Edmund HusserlThe ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
Edmund HusserlPhilosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.
Edmund Husserl