Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time, nobody thinks or makes up his mind without already being caught up in certain relationships with others, which leads him to opt for a particular set of opinions.

Believe

Humanity

Thinking

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.

Names

Phenomenology

Say Anything

Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.

Moving

Self

Thinking

Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act ‘sexual’ or ‘non-sexual’ . There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost.

Decision

Motivation

Vices

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it… If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one’s own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

Body

Perception

Speak

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

Empathy

Expression

Feels

I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.

Believe

Communication

Movement

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.

Fortune

Passion

Said

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Century

Irrational

Missions

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

Language

Phenomenology

Speak

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Accepting

Alive

Art

Asks

Believe

Body

Book

Century

Children

Circles

Communication

Contrary

Decision

Determine

Doe

Empathy

Explanation

Expression

Fabric

Feelings

Feels

Fields

Flesh

Fortune

Giving

Giving Up

Hands

Heart

Historical

Humanity

Intellect

Irrational

Knows

Language

Long

Mean

Men

Missions

Motivation

Movement

Moving

Names

Obscure

Opposites

Order

Passion

Past

Perception

Perspective

Phenomenology

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Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it… If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one’s own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

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