On Husserl, Phenomenology, Descartes, And Augustine

When discussing Descartes and Phenomenology in his Cartesian Meditations Husserl quotes St. Augustine stating:

"Noli foras ire, in te redi in interiore homine habitat veritas."

(Do not wish to go out; go back into yourself. Truth dwells in the inner man)

- St. Augustine, De Vera Religione, 39 n. 72.

On The Accessibility Of Husserl's Cartesian Meditations

"That Husserl's Cartesian Meditations is his most widely read work is not surprising. It is short, available in paperback, and its subtle - 'An Introduction to Phenomenology' -promises accessibility. As such an introduction, however, the work must be judged a dismal failure."

- A. D. Smith, Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to: Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations (London: Routledge, 2003).

On The "Hiddenness" Of Husserl

I can hardly understand Phenomenology at times. Needless to say, it's nice to know that even phenomenolgoists don't understand each other:

these circumstances forced me to delve into Husserl's work anew. However, my repeated beginning also remained unsatisfactory, because I couldn't get over a main difficulty. It concerned the simple question how thinking's manner of procedure which called itself 'phenomenology' was carried out. What worried me about this question came from the ambiguity which Husserl's work showed at first glance.

- Martin Heidegger, On Time and Being, trans. by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson (London: SCM Press, 1962).