The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance -… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to… — 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 Image
“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 Image
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“There are several ways for a body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“We do not have the right to level out all experience into a single world.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Expression is like a step taken in the fog--no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
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