" As a speaking and active subject I encroach upon the other who is listening, as the understanding and passive subject I allow the other to encroach upon me. Within myself, in the exercise of language, I experience activity each time as the other side of passivity. And it is thus that ideality 'makes its entrance.' No more in my relationship than in my relationship to others is there any question of survey or of pure ideality. There is, however, the overlapping of a passivity by an activity: that is how I think within the other person and how I talk with myself. Speech is not a product of my active thought, standing in a secondary relation to it. It is my practice, my operation, my 'Funktion,' my destiny. Every spiritual production is a response and an appeal, a coproduction. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology