"Like the weaver, the writer works on the……" — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense."
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38 Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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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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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
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