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Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
- The World of Perception, 1948...
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Children category:
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Contemplation category:
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Doubt category:
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Experience category:
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Humanity category:
-The World of Perception,, 1948...
As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time, nobody thinks or makes up his mind without already being caught up in certain relationships with others, which leads him to opt for a particular set of opinions. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Language category:
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. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Meaning category:
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-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Mediums category:
The body is our general medium for having a world. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Perception category:
I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Silence category:
- Phenomenology of Perception, 1945...
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin, so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. The spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Symbols category:
- Phenomenology of Perception, 1945...
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary... (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Teaching category:
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Thought category:
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Time category:
My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Truth category:
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-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Understanding category:
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Vision category:
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-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Words category:
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - From the Writing category:
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-Ponty)
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