"It is the mission of the twentieth century……" — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational."
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38 Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty has 38 quotes on this site.
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True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the…
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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being.…
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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation…
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics,…
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Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show…
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Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the…
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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The…
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Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a…
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
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