Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
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
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
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside… — 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
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
I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible… — 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 world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. — 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 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
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view… — 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
