All perception is a gamble.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

I must achieve internal consistency.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Experience by itself is not science.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

All consciousness is consciousness of something

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

Love those thoughts, those thoughts of love, those delights for heart, tickler of life, twinkles in eyes.

Only your Willpower can fight the bad influences around you.

If we had a penny for each time God smiled at us, we would all be billionaires.

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

You are meant to have an amazing life.