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

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

Pure 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.

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

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Psychologically 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.

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