By "phenomenology" we simply mean the study of a category of phenomena, and not a particular philosophy which claims to resolve everything by observing or exploring in its fashion the phenomena that present themselves to one's attention, without being able to account for the central and ungraspable phenomenon that is the mystery of subjectivity...

There are no metaphysical or cosmological reasons why, in exceptional cases, direct intellection should not occur in men who have no link at all with revealed wisdom, but an exception, if it proves the rule, assuredly cannot constitute it. For instance, an intuition as just as that which forms the basis of German ‘phenomenology’, inevitably remains, for lack of objective intellectual principles, fragmentary, problematical and inoperative. An accident does not take the place of a principle, nor does a philosophical adventure replace real wisdom. No one has, in fact, been able to extract anything from this ‘phenomenology’ from the point of view of effective and integral knowledge — the knowledge that works on the soul and transforms it. A true intuition, even if it were fundamental, could not assume a definitive function in a mode of thought as anarchical as modern philosophy; it must always be condemned to remain merely an ineffectual glimmer in the history of an entirely human system of thought which, precisely, does not know that real knowledge has no history.