Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.
Edmund HusserlIn all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
Edmund HusserlPure 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.
Edmund Husserl