6 Quotes & Sayings By Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl was a 20th century German philosopher, who is most famous for his ideas on phenomenology and his conception of the reduction of reality. He was born in Moravia, Austria-Hungary, the son of a luthier. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna from 1896 to 1900, receiving his doctorate in mathematics with a dissertation on the axiomatic foundations of geometry in 1901. In 1905 he became a lecturer at the University of Freiburg, where he remained until 1918 Read more

In 1918 he became a Privatdozent at the University of Munich. In 1922 Husserl founded with Max Scheler and Martin Heidegger one of three schools of phenomenology known as the Munich School. In 1923 Husserl became a professor at Freiburg as successor to Scheler, but retired due to poor health in 1929.

He died in Freiburg on April 26, 1938.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in...
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I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world. Edmund Husserl
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. Edmund Husserl
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Experience by itself is not science. Edmund Husserl
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. Edmund Husserl
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. Edmund Husserl