"The full meaning of a language is never……" — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once."
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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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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You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which…
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The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always…
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The pain goes away, but your work always remains.
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With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually…
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From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
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Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and…
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To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He…
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Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.
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A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.
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Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or…
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Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any…
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The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is…
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