Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the...

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but t...

Humanity is not an aggregate of individuals, a community of thinkers, each of whom is guaranteed fro...

The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the ...

The body is our general medium for having a world.

the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of ...

The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are ...

This also means that philosophy itself must not take itself as established in the truths it has mana...

The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, followsthe same law: all colors are aff...

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The chi...

Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together ag...

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptio...

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], s...

The flesh is at the heart of the world.

Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental...

The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could b...

Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends o...

Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its...

So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that th...

Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perce...

...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, ...

We know not through our intellect but through our Experience