Quotes About Phenomenology

All flesh, and even that of the world, radiates beyond itself.

Every perception is the perception of something solely by way of being at the same time the relative imperception of a horizon or background which it implies but does not thematize. Perceptual consciousness is therefore indirect or even inverted in relation to an ideal of adequation which it presumes but never encounters directly.

The sensible order is being at a distance--the fulgurating attestation here and now to an inexhaustible richness.

The incompleteness of the reduction is not an obstacle to the reduction, it is the reduction itself, the rediscovery of vertical being.

This is a theory of why effort is often unpleasant. The phenomenology of getting tired doesn't reflect a diminishing resource; rather, it is about growing opportunity cost. This feeling of difficulty is a signal that there are better things to do elsewhere.