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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 fogno 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
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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
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[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 itselfor 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