116 Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Everything is science and everything is philosophy.

In advocating nonviolence one reinforces established violence.

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

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

A science without philosophy would literally not know what it was talking about. A philosophy without methodological exploration of phenomena would end up with nothing but formal truths, which is to say, errors.

Matter is ‘pregnant’ with its form.

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.

The wonderful thing about language is that it promotes its own oblivion.

What we call ‘natural’ is frequently no more than bad theory.