Phenomenology Philosophy Quotes

#1. Phenomenology is not a philosophy ; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.

Colin Wilson

#2. My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.

Bernard Stiegler

#3. It's totally okay to fuck up. More than okay. It's normal. Our fuck-ups make us who we are, and if we don't accept that ... well, there'd be nothing but more potential fuck-ups in our future. Or, worse, we'd just freeze up and stop doing anything at all.

Steph Campbell

#4. Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#5. some wounds aren't so easily healed.

Orson Scott Card

#6. The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#7. In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind.

Neel Burton

#8. We have still not had a death. A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground." he said.
"If I have to die for the rest of you to stay here, I will die" replied Ursula with a soft firmness.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. One patient got up and used his wound care supplies to tape his hospital door shut.

Adele Levine

#10. The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

James A. Baldwin

#11. Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#12. Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science
the dream is over.

Edmund Husserl

#13. Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

Jeremy Bentham

#14. In truth, there is no such thing as an "intuitive boundary" of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

Istvan Aranyosi

#15. Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

Robin Williams

#16. It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#17. Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.

Robin Sieger