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
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Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:
“The body is the vehicle of being in the world.”
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Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:
“It is by lending his body to the world that the artist changes the world into paintings.”
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Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:
“We come to know the world through our body.”
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“The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.”
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