7 Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty about world



  • Author Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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    Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.

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  • Author Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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    I rediscover the world - which I had distinguished from myself as a sum of things or of processes tied together through causal relations - ‘in myself’ as the permanent horizon of all of my thoughts and as a dimension in relation to which I never cease situating myself.

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  • Author Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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    Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.

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