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Any commemoration is also a betrayal. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We struggle with dream figures and our blows fall on living faces. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

What exists are not separated animals, but an inter-animality. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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

The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

A field tends of itself to multiply. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

There is not identity, nor non-identity, or non-coincidence, there is inside and outside turning about one another. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Nothingness is like the point of the stroboscopic spiral, which is who knows where, which is 'nobody. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

This is an encounter between the human and the non-human, it is something like a behavior of the world. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

There is an intemporal which works on the inside of time, which is, rather, omnitemporal. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The flesh is at the heart of the world. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We are caught in a secret history, in a forest of symbols. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

True philosophy consists in relearning to look at the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty — Simon Critchley

Everything is science and everything is philosophy. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

If myths, dreams and illusion are to be possible, the apparent and the real must remain ambiguous in the subject as in the object. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We know not through our intellect but through our experience. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Each one of us knows for his own part that the world as it is, is unacceptable. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Everything written has a political bearing, even in the case of a study on bees. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

There is no more individuated being in the system. We only ever have to deal with families of trajectories. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Concepts for a philosopher are only nets for catching sense. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Activity = passivity. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one to have his passion as a profession. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

There is a kinship between the concepts of nature and radical contingency. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The body is our general medium for having a world. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Where are we to put the limit between the body and the world, since the world is flesh? — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

To abstain from violence toward the violent is to become their accomplice. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Expression is like a step taken in the fog
no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Perhaps the truth is simply that one would need many lives to enter each realm of experience with the total abandon it demands. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

A regime which is nominally liberal can be oppressive in reality. A regime which acknowledges its violence might have more genuine humanity. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

An abyss is not nothing; it has environs & edges. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent ... — Maurice Merleau Ponty

It is impossible to be an anti-Communist and it is not possible to be a Communist. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

To think is not having but not having. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

How do we know that it refers to the past? That is the real problem of memory. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Memory deforms reality, which nevertheless is formed as reality only in memory — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Philosophy: circles that include one another. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to 'consciousness' of human knowledge. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Language transcends us and yet we speak. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The world and I are within one another. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We do not have the right to level out all experience into a single world. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Violence is the common origin of all regimes. Life, discussion, and political choice occur only against a background of violence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Very few philosophers have been anarchists — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

In advocating nonviolence one reinforces established violence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We might say that we perceive the things themselves, that we are the world that thinks itself
or that the world is at the heart of our flesh. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We speak of 'inspiration,' and the word should be taken literally. There really is inspiration and expiration of Being. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Revolutions are true as movements and false as regimes. — Maurice Merleau Ponty