“The free artistic fiction and the formation produced in the real world by means of the connection of fictions creates a predelineation for the one contemplating art. But it extends only as far as the artist has tied his unitary forms to such predelineations; beyond that, everything is again an empty possibility that can be shaped by phantasies chosen at will with any sense one likes. The perception as such determines nothing. One sees this in the fact that we would not live with one another in a pure phantasy world and that obviously nothing at all would change in what has been said if we had the same immediate freedom of perceptual phantasy as we do of reproductive phantasy: hence if we could hallucinate at will.”
Quote by Edmund Husserl
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Phantasy, Image Consciousness and Memory, 1898-1925
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Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl (April 8, 1859 - April 26, 1938) was a German philosopher and the founder of phenomenology. His philosophical thought emphasized the direct intuition of the essence of things and advocated the use of phenomenological methods to reveal the essence of things. His main works include 'Logical Investigations' and 'The Idea of Phenomenology'. more
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