My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“This swarming of words behind words, thoughts behind thoughts--this universal substitution is also a kind of stability.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Language is everything, since it is the voice of no one, since it is the very voice of things, the waves and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Now if we rid our minds of the idea that our language is the translation or cipher of an original text, we… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together again by thought. Language bears the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
“The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable because phenomenology’s… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
“Man is hidden, well hidden, & this time we must make no mistake about it: this does not mean that he is there beneath… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
“There are several ways for a body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
“We do not have the right to level out all experience into a single world.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
“The world and reason are not problems; and though we might call them mysterious, this mystery is essential to them, there can be no… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
“Expression is like a step taken in the fog--no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
“This is an encounter between the human and the non-human, it is something like a behavior of the world.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share
![“Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its…” quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/74b/maurice-merleau-ponty-2834_action_our-view-of-man-will-remain-superficial_201592.jpg)
