Phenomenalism Quotes

“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all living beings. Reality is not a unique and homogeneous thing; it is immensely diversified, having as many different schemes and patterns as there are different organisms. Every organism is, so to speak, a monadic being. It has a world of its own because it has an experience of its own. The phenomena that we find in the life of a certain biological species are not transferable to any other species. The experiences - and therefore the realities - of two different organisms are incommensurable with one another. In the world of a fly, says Uexkull, we find only "fly things"; in the world of a sea urchin we find only "sea urchin things.”
― Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

“Note very well that you're not here to fit into someone else's world...
You're here to build YOUR own world filled with lots of Happiness, Success, Opulence, Beauty, Love and great fun*** enjoy building it & have a blast!”
― Katlego Semusa

“Phenomenalists are concerned with symptoms rather than causes: with rains of animals pouring from the sky; with impossible coincidences; with inexplicable sightings of creatures or objects. The conclusion these observations lead to is that there are, in fact, three modes of reality, "hard", "psychological" and, between the two, "phenomenal", and all of these are active, all blur into one, when truthfully described, without the need to immediately leap in with rational explanation.”
― Jeremy Dyson, The Haunted Book

“Indeed, if the goal of philosophy has become to use reason to defend the irrational or to accept arguments on other grounds than probable truth, then perhaps it is no more than apologetics and may well deserve the scorn which many practical people direct at it.”
― John T. Blackmore, Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895-1930: Or Phenomenalism as Philosophy of Science