So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
I must achieve internal consistency.
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
Experience by itself is not science.
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.
Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.