"A child might be overawed by a great city, but a civil engineer knows that he might demolish it and rebuild it himsel…"

"No one in our century has raised the call for philosophy as a rigorous science with such clarity, purity, vigor, and …"

"A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new…"

"To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an i…"

"First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt…"

"Whoever wishes to define the conceptual invariants of natural beauty would make himself as ridiculous as Husserl did …"

"Wir wollen auf die ‘Sachen selbst’ zurückgehen."

"Nicht von den Philosophien sondern von den Sachen und Problemen muß der Antrieb zur Forschung ausgehen."

"Die Krise des europäischen Daseins hat nur zwei Auswege: Den Untergang Europas in der Entfremdung gegen seinen eigene…"

"Denn der Geist allein ist unsterblich."