Quotes by : Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together again....

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.....

Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception....

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the....

The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, followsthe same law: all colors are affected....

...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...

If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the....

This also means that philosophy itself must not take itself as established in the truths it has managed....

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child....

The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world,....