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Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes on Nature

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 nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:

    “The body is the vehicle of being in the world.”

  • Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:

    “It is by lending his body to the world that the artist changes the world into paintings.”

  • Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:

    “We come to know the world through our body.”

  • “The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.”

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