" Ideal being is omnitemporal, because to remember former ideations is to begin them again in the consciousness of rebeginning: i.e., in in the consciousness that this present activity is the other side of past activity. The instantaneousness, the Erzeugung, which seemed to be obstacles to the permanence of ideal being, are on the contrary what founds it insofar as they are a call to reiteration. Simply, ideal objectivity is not in something before me; it is is the lateral connection, the hidden and internal attachment of different ideations which are identified with one another across memory, conjugation of passivity and activity, equivalence of a passivity and an activity, encroachment of one on the other: passivity as mold or negativity of an activity. "

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