Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Edmund HusserlPsychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
Edmund HusserlNatural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Edmund HusserlPhilosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.
Edmund Husserl