To the things themselves!
Zu den Sachen selbst!

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Edmund Husserl
Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician (1859-1938), founder of phenomenology. His "phenomenological reduction" — bracketing assumptions to return "to the things themselves" — shaped Heidegger, Sartre, and others.
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