Edmund Husserl Quotes

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

We need the self-confidence to admit that at best we possess only a partial understanding of the truth, which can be enlarged by refining our views in light of new arguments, new circumstances and new insights. But this requires us to listen to others, to weigh their arguments with care, and maybe even to learn from them.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The specious figments of genius, and the erratic flights of philosophy, may excite our wonder, but they cannot stand the ordeal of scrutiny, or the Lydian touch of experiment.

I find that quite enjoyable, trying to see the downsides of someone.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.

I'm big on watching film, and sometimes it hurts myself because I over-calculate things, or I overthink sometimes.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.