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
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
“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
“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
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think. — 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
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
“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
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
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
