Maurice NatansonThinkers

Causality is, in phenomenology, one side of a great divide, on the other side of which is meaning.

The Contract is not that which bind one person to another in the relationships that permeate the life-world, but, rather, it is the 'sense' of the contractual which underlies agreement.

Essence is not something mystical and hidden, but a democracy of presentation.

Intentionality is fragile. It consist of acts which are rays of sensibility, not strands of steel with which bridges are built.

The Other is never come in contact as a total being, but always only in some aspect - a certain slouch of the shoulder, the carriage of a torso, a bewildered face.

Phenomenology is a method which makes the difficult demand that to understand phenomenology one must, as it were, become a phenomenologist.