Edmund Husserl Quotes

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

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

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

The world divides into facts.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

Being that can be understood is language.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

Light is time thinking about itself.

Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings.

I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Truth happens to an idea

Reality is the completion of experience.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.