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

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

The 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.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.