Connectedness Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“A ‘world’ has dimensions. By definition they are not the sole possible ones.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.”

— Arnold Toynbee

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

“The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.”

— Bryant McGill

“Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that…

— Raheel Farooq

“Externalization and objectivation are moments in a continuing dialectical process. The third moment in this process, which is internalization (by which the objectivated social…

— Peter L. Berger

“When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and,…

— Jack Kerouac

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

— William Kingdon Clifford

“Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.”

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“Human existence is, ab initio, an ongoing externalization. As man externalizes himself, he constructs the world into which he externalizes himself. In the process…

— Peter L. Berger

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum;…

— Terence McKenna

In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind.…

— Raymond Geuss