“I am not an Husserlian phenomenologist, since I construct not one, but a whole series of phenomenologies, of which only the last is meant to stand”. The Discipline of the Cave, p. 15.
“It seems plain that our human world is a world in which innumerable ideas, meanings, facts, principles, constructions, hyphotheses, laws, images and ideals are as essential a part of the landscape as are the concrete bodies and thinking persons around which they cluster, and above which they float. They constitute a universal world of rational mind in which all thinking persons share, whatever the limitations of their immediate, sensuous viewpoint”.
“The phenomenal world is obviously full of absences, dangers, possibilities of development, aggregates, presuppositions and past backgrounds, and this long before we formulate them in language: it requires only minimal daring to concede their presence in the phenomena revealed to animals.” The Discipline of the Cave, pp. 69-70.