It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY
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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice 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.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty The body is our general medium for having a world.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty Language transcends us and yet we speak.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty The philosopher will ask himself if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty I discover vision, not as a ‘thinking about seeing,’ to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another’s gaze.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it’s caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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