About Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher. He was strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. His main interest was how meaning is formed in human experience, and he wrote on perception, art, politics, religion, biology, psychology, psychoanalysis, language, nature, and history. In 1945 he became the lead editor of the leftist magazine Les Temps modernes, which he founded together with Jean‑Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
![“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)
![“All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any…” quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5d3/maurice-merleau-ponty-2834_action_all-thought-of-something-is-at-the-same_893047.jpg)
