“There is a kinship between the concepts of nature and radical contingency.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“What we call ‘natural’ is frequently no more than bad theory.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“The generality of time, of a family of times, is derived from the fact that all these times are enveloped in a… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Nature gives us a dispersed finality. It is a demonology, full of supranatural forces, not one of which is supernatural. On this… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a… — 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
Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit… — 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
