Experience by itself is not science.

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

I must achieve internal consistency.

All perception is a gamble.

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.

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.

If you want to heal Heal othersAnd smile or weepAt this happy reversal of fate

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

No is an unacceptable answer. I'm allergic to no.

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.