« All Physical Object Quotes
·
Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Page
Physical Object Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1 Physical Object quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
More Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and…
-
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
-
The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is…
-
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
-
I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness…
-
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
-
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view…
-
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
-
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The…
-
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of…
-
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
-
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function…
See all 38 quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty »
More Physical Object Quotes
Popular Physical Object quotes from across the collection:
-
A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours,…
— Ernst Mach
-
I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a…
— Kiki Smith
-
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.
— Owen Gingerich
-
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
-
Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always…
— Joe Bradley
-
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the…
— Thomas Szasz
-
A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because…
— Mo Willems
-
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the…
— Jorge Luis Borges
-
We tend to mistake music for the physical object.
— David Byrne
See all Physical Object Quotes »
Browse Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes by Category