Quotes About Phenomenology

Surpassing surpasses only through recurrence.

In the horizon, there is no subject and object. We are there like the others; we are, like the others, drawn out of this horizonal being, divergences or variants in relation to it.

We all secretly venerate the ideal of a language which in the last analysis would deliver us from language by delivering us to things.

This phenomenology, however, is always on the horizon, because it is the will to exhaust the things themselves, which are inexhaustible. What makes it already be there--never there--is its radicalism, which gives way to an impassioned fermentation.

My organism--as a pre-personal adhesion to the general form of the world, as an anonymous and general existence--plays the role of an innate complex beneath the level of my personal life. My organism is not like some inert thing, it itself sketches out the movement of existence.

The Umwelt is less and less oriented toward a goal and more and more toward the interpretation of symbols.

I do not perceive simply "things" but also use-objects: an article of clothing, for example...Nerve functioning distributes not only spatial and chromatic values but also symbolic values.

Trace: presence of an absent: experience of an absence.

A determinate emptiness: a lack, a privation, a dimension (new type of intellectual existence).

There are several ways for the body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.

Existence turning back upon itself but without succeeding in carrying itself away.

The unthought can only appear through contact.

The person himself must be understood as institution, not as consciousness of...

The structure 'world,' with its double movement of sedimentation and spontaneity, is at the center of consciousness.

The sensible world is full of gaps, ellipses, allusions.

What does it mean to think?: we rediscover a path that the thing has already traversed.

This colored surface holds itself together; it does not receive its unity from our representation or from a representation of its own.

God is not known apart from experience, but we take hold of him in the finite.

Alg?m görsel, dokunsal ve i?itsel verilerin toplam? de?ildir. Bütün varl???mla, bütünlüklü bir ?ekilde alg?alr?m: Ayn? anda tüm duygular?ma konu?an biricik bir yap?y?, biricik bir varl?k biçimini kavrar?m.

The perceiving mind is an incarnated mind.

L'Être est ce qui exige de nous création pour que nous en ayons l'expérience.

These clarifications allow us to understand motricity unequivocally as original intentionality. Consciousness is originally not an 'I think that,' but rather an 'I can.

I found in the experience of the perceived world a new type of relation between the mind and truth...We experience in it a truth which shows through and envelops us rather than being held and circumscribed by our mind.

There is no absolute 'in-itself,' and no absolute 'for us'—for the same reasons, i.e., their reciprocal relativization, their 'mutual coincidence.' -From Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Hegel