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“I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.”

Thinking World Use Vision Seeing Expression Visible Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“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.”

Language Sides Materials Phenomenology Weavers

Book:The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting

Source: The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting

“Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.”

Causes Ordinary Remains Adequate Punctuation Phenomenology Speciation

Book:The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Source: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

“Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.”

Roots Ears Massive Quests Dialectics Phenomenology

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A whole phenomenology then appeared, but a phenomenology without ideas, or rather without any of the systems of official conventions. What appeared was distinct from form and became Immediacy. 'The mark of the immediate' - that was what I needed.”

Thinking Believe Ideas Whole Christian Form Needed Mark Flesh Officials Conventions Resurrection Immediacy Phenomenology

Author:Yves Klein

“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”

Men Writing Facts Language Masters Remains Phenomenology

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.”

Philosophy Used Car Tools Philosophical Method Nails Knocking Refrigerators Phenomenology

Author:Colin Wilson

“Language transcends us and yet we speak.”

Speak Language Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.”

Firsts Names Deals Century Pure Concepts Claims Various Phenomenon Phenomenology

Book:Husserl, shorter works

Source: Husserl, shorter works

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

Consciousness Pure Propositions Phenomenology

Book:Husserl, shorter works

Source: Husserl, shorter works

“Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.”

Shapes Tools Shifting Shamanism Phenomenology

Author:Terence McKenna

“I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.”

Should Believe Certain I Believe Religious Influence Example Theory Conscious Substance Subjective Religious Experience Phenomenology Realness Variance

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.”

Problem Reality Might Social Emotion Wife Example Possibility Emotional Ordinary Excellent Perceive Cheating Representation Transparency Ordinary Life Phenomenology Misrepresentation

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.”

Ifs Wells Art Book Humanity Talking New York Perception Understood Presses Instance Phenomenology

Author:Robert Barry

“The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of scientific description, but with experiences of nature that impinge upon our moods and emotions, enrich our imagination and reveries, and shape our sense of how we stand in relation to the environing world. In a broad sense of the term, this kind of writing is an exercise in phenomenology, an attempt to render the significance that birds, plants or whatever have for us.”

“Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.”

Believe Desire Failing Perception Contrary Tempted Phenomenology

Book:Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction

Source: Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction

“The body is our general medium for having a world.”

World Body Mediums Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.”

World Social Natural Existence Fields Objects Permanent Dimensions Natural World Connectedness Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“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.”

World Names Say Anything Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.”

Essence Certainty Reservations Phenomenology

Book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“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.”

Way Mean Shows Phenomenology

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.”

Men World Long Action Views Silence Break Failing Gestures Superficial Spoken Word Chatter Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.”

Philosophy School Hate Intellectual I Hate Discussion Knives Bucks Phenomenology Structuralism

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.”

Firsts Eye Waiting Break Generations Students Performances Existentialism Horizon Marxism Breathtaking Beckett Phenomenology Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel

Source: Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel

“True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.”

World Body Realizing Situation Fields Reflection Historical Contrary Despite Contemplation Idle Identical Subjectivity Inaccessible Phenomenology

Book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”

World Art Philosophy Expression Reflection Explicit Phenomenology Laying Down

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.”

Hands Would Be Given Process Virtue Subjects Objects Ideals Cognitive Phenomenology

Author:Edmund Husserl

“The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.”

Consciousness Psychology Pure Ideals Phenomenology

Book:Husserl, shorter works

Source: Husserl, shorter works

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

Natural Example Objects Phenomenology

Book:Husserl, shorter works

Source: Husserl, shorter works

“There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.”

Culture Depends Sick Temperament Phenomenology Personal History Being Sick

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the anima. When the reverie is truly profound, the being who comes to dream within us is our anima. For a philosopher who takes his inspiration from phenomenology, a reverie on reverie is very exactly a phenomenology of the anima, and it is by coordinating reveries on reverie that he hopes to constitute a "Poetics of reverie". In other words, the poetics of reverie is a poetics of the anima.”

Dream Inspiration Wish Profound Philosopher Core Essays Thesis Reverie Phenomenology Coordinating

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."”

Dream Consciousness Path Following Wander Relax Right Time Reverie Clouded Phenomenology

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.”

People Knows Looks Use Science Fool Statements Dumb Classification Phenomenology

Author:William Wilson Morgan

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