Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes on Knowledge
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 knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:
“Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or rather there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.”
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Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:
“Perception is not a science of the world, it is not even an act, a deliberate taking up of a position; it is the background from which all acts stand out.”
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Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:
“We come to know the world through our body.”
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Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:
“The phenomenological world is not pure being, but the sense which is revealed where the paths of my various experiences intersect.”