"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 move...












The body is our general medium for having a world.

More Maurice Merleau-Ponty quotes
"So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in fav...
"Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means that...
"Speech 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 bear...
"If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the forest bordering on the sand dune, there will be ...
"The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the ref...
"The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believ...
"Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together again by thought. Language bears the sense of though...
"The flesh is at the heart of the world.