Maurice Merleau Ponty Quotes
Top 68 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maurice Merleau Ponty
Maurice Merleau Ponty Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The generality of time, of a family of times, is derived from the fact that all these times are enveloped in a process of nature.
If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its chance occurrences and paradoxes.
There is not identity, nor non-identity, or non-coincidence, there is inside and outside turning about one another.
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful ... but also when it comes to happiness.
Nothingness is like the point of the stroboscopic spiral, which is who knows where, which is 'nobody.
This is an encounter between the human and the non-human, it is something like a behavior of the world.
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
What do I bring to the problem of the same and the other? This: that the same be the other than the other, and identity difference of difference.
If myths, dreams and illusion are to be possible, the apparent and the real must remain ambiguous in the subject as in the object.
There is nothing to be seen beyond our horizons, but other landscapes and still other horizons, and nothing inside the thing but other smaller things.
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
We do not have a choice between purity and violence but between different kinds of violence. Inasmuch as we are incarnate beings, violence is our lot.
There is no more individuated being in the system. We only ever have to deal with families of trajectories.
We carry in our incarnate being the alphabet & the grammar of life, but this does not presuppose an achieved meaning either in us or in it.
History flows neither from the past nor to the future alone: it reverses its course and, when you get right down to it, flows from all the presents.
Perhaps the truth is simply that one would need many lives to enter each realm of experience with the total abandon it demands.
A regime which is nominally liberal can be oppressive in reality. A regime which acknowledges its violence might have more genuine humanity.
Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to 'consciousness' of human knowledge.
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
Violence is the common origin of all regimes. Life, discussion, and political choice occur only against a background of violence.
The world and Being hold together only in movement; it is only in this way that all things can be together. Philosophy is a reminding of this being.