Edmund Husserl Quotes

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

To every object there correspond 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.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

The percept takes priority of the concept.

The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.

The thought is not the thing.

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

Concepts are mental images.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.