" The past and the present, the essence and the the fact, space and time, are not given in the same sense, and none of them is given in the sense of coincidence. The "originating" is not of one sole type, it is not all behind us; the lived experience is not flat, without depth, without dimension; it is not an opaque stratum with which we would have to merge. The appeal to the originating goes in several directions: the originating breaks up, and philosophy must accompany this break-up, this non-coincidence, this differentiation. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , The Visible and the Invisible