" It is a question not of putting the perceptual faith in
place of reflection, but on the contrary of taking into account the total situation, which involves reference from the one to the other. What is given is not a massive and opaque world, or a universe of adequate thought; it is a reflection which turns back over the density of the world in order to clarify it, but which,
coming second, reflects back to it only its own light. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , The Visible and the Invisible