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Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology QUOTES

Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology QUOTES

1 " History flows neither from the past nor to the future alone: it reverses its course and, when you get right down to it, flows from all the presents. "

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

2 " We are human precisely insofar as we always intend a singularity across the thickness of our lives, insofar as we are grouped around this unique interior where there is no one, which is latent, veiled, and escapes from us always leaving behind in our hands truth which are like traces of its absence. "

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

3 " To think is not having but not having. "

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

4 " The idea of tradition is this double movement: being other in order to be the same, forgetting in order to conserve, producing in order to receive, looking ahead in order to receive the entire force of the past. "

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

5 " Is drawing near to speech, speaking, seeing, thinking oresently, rediscovering speech, vision, thoughts which are vertical (=abyssal) a 'mysticism' without God? Coincidence? No: it is not extraphilosophical, coincidence with an unsayable, an external ineffable. All of speculation is necessary in order to discover a sense for this prespeculative Being. But what will we say about it? Everything that we will say about it will be in principle false. Silence? There really would be indirect language...which would not try to objectify the said, but which gives it through gestures = poetry--And we could generalize: history, life, Passions. But then philosophy replaced by art, poetry, life? No, because they speak only silently. Philosophy as the thematization of this speaking silence. "

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

6 " There is an intemporal which works on the inside of time, which is, rather, omnitemporal. "

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

7 " Ideality is truly an inter-being, a cloth between 'thoughts' or production, a field in which the different, factual Einfühlungen are the partial realizations of one Speech. "

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

8 " Stiftung is not enveloping thought, but open thought, not the intended and Vorhabe of an actual center, but an 'off-center' which will be rectified, not the positing of an end, but the positing of a style, not a frontal grasp but a lateral divergence, algae brought back from the depths. "

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

9 " The abyss is not to be conceived of as lack of Being, but as more than Being. "

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

10 " 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

11 " In the horizon, there is no subject and object. We are there like the others; we are, like the others, drawn out of this horizonal being, divergences or variants in relation to it. "

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

12 " This phenomenology, however, is always on the horizon, because it is the will to exhaust the things themselves, which are inexhaustible. What makes it already be there--never there--is its radicalism, which gives way to an impassioned fermentation. "

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

13 " Trace: presence of an absent: experience of an absence. "

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

14 " To think: to encircle an unthought. "

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

15 " A determinate emptiness: a lack, a privation, a dimension (new type of intellectual existence). "

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

16 " The unthought can only appear through contact. "

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

17 " What does it mean to think?: we rediscover a path that the thing has already traversed. "

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

18 " The Wesen is sense of radiation, connected to materials, ingraspable outside of the fact or outside of existence. It is the way in which a whole is produced and reproduced, inseparable from this production. (verbal) Wesen "

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

19 " What is at issue is to recognize the operation in us which is us and which is not ours. "

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

20 " Circularity--a dangerous word. Circularity of Heraclitus, yes: to go in one direction is truly to go in the other. A thick identity there, which truly contains difference. "

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