“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
“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
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“There is no sphere of immanence, no realm in which my consciousness is fully at home and secure against all risk of… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to ‘consciousness’ of human knowledge.” — 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
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. — 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
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
“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 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
“The present still holds on to the immediate past without positing it as an object, and since the immediate past similarly holds… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness… — 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
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
“It is because we are through and through compounded of relationships with the world that for us the only way to become… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“There is no longer: consciousness, projections, In itself or object. there are fields in intersection, in a field of fields.” — 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
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