Edmund Husserl Quotes

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Science is nothing but perception.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

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

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Truth is a big concept.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Subjectivity is objective.

The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.