The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“What resists phenomenology within us--natural being, the 'barbarian' source Schelling spoke of--cannot remain outside phenomenology. The philosopher must bear his shadow, which… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable… — 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
“The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as 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
