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Text and Dialogues QUOTES

1 " Everything written has a political bearing, even in the case of a study on bees. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Text and Dialogues

2 " In all dialogue there is an element of concrete universality. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Text and Dialogues

3 " All vision, no matter what color it may be, is a kind of thoughtscreen (which allows for the overflowing of other thoughts)--Vorhabe <\i> and sedimentation. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Text and Dialogues

4 " People would be very unhappy if they were to look closely at what lies beneath the words they use so readily. This is why they prefer, for the most part, not to do so. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Text and Dialogues

5 " Discoveries' in philosophy are always at the same time inventions...Truth is not ready-made in things, and yet, by a 'retrograde movement,' it presents itself to us as existing prior to our act of knowledge. We encounter reality: that is the cause and <\i> effect of the knowledge we have of it. This circle is the definition of history, and it is up to the philosopher to learn to live with it. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Text and Dialogues

6 " In my opinion the word 'existence,' in the sense that I have in mind, contains the following inextricably bound ideas: we are in a circumscribed environment and cannot know the whole, and if we refuse to take this whole into consideratiom, we mutilate ourselves, "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Text and Dialogues

7 " Anglo-American analytic philosophy is a deliberate retreat into a universe of thought where contingency, ambiguity, and the concrete have no place. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Text and Dialogues

8 " Perhaps there are never any masters except after the fact and from afar. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Text and Dialogues