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"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."
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"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."

"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."

"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."

"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."

"There's no consciousness without senses and memories."

"We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone."

"I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself."

"Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century."
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"Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other."

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

"The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject."

"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious."
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