Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes on God
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a 20th-century French phenomenologist and one of the most original philosophers of the post-war French tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“De Lubac discusses an atheism which means to suppress this searching, he says, “even including the problem as to what is responsible for the birth of God in human consciousness.””
In Praise of Philosophy(1963) | p. 45 -
“Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.”
In Praise of Philosophy(1963) | p. 45 -
“The philosopher will ask himself … if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.”
In Praise of Philosophy(1963) | p. 47 -
“Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.”
In Praise of Philosophy(1963) | p. 46