"The body is our general medium for having…" — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

"The body is our general medium for having a world."

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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38 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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the…
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…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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