In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

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.

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.

God is master architect of our lives.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

I'm George Bush. I'm the president.

Do what you feel is right, baby.