Phenomenology Quotes
Phenomenology Quote of the day
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
The body is our general medium for having a world.
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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.
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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.
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
Our only reality is our perception of reality.
There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.
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.
I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.
We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself.