Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Download Open image ““Nothing is more difficult than to know precisely what we see.”” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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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
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We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
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We know not through our intellect but through our experience. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
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