The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYWe know not through our intellect but through our experience.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYMontaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYWe must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe 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 PONTYWe should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYSpeech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYIt is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYIt is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYI may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYI live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYSocrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY