" The notions of Nature and Reason,...far from explaining the metamorphoses which we have observed from perception up to the more complex
modes of human exchange, make them incomprehensible. For by relating them to separated principles, these notions mask a constantly
experienced moment, the moment when an existence becomes aware of itself, grasps itself, and expresses its own meaning.

The study of perception could only teach us a "bad ambiguity," a mixture of finitude and universality, of interiority and exteriority. But there is a "good ambiguity" in the phenomenon of expression, a spontaneity which accomplishes what appeared to be impossible when we observed only the separate elements, a spontaneity which gathers together the plurality of monads, the past and the present, nature and culture into a single whole. To establish this wonder would be metaphysics itself and would at the same time give us the principle of an ethics. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics