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Edmund Husserl Quotes

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Edmund Husserl (8 April 1859 – 26 April 1938) was a philosopher from Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire, known as the father of phenomenology.

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Experience by itself is not science.

Pure Phenomenology (1917)

First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.

Cartesian Meditations (1931)

To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

Pure Phenomenology (1917)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Husserl (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.