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“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“The body is our general medium for having a world.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being....."
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin of silence..."
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.”
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.”
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
"...Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.” 
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
 
“True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity..."
― Maurice.M.Ponty
 
Maurice Marleat Ponty
Maurice Merleau Ponty
Maurice Merleau Ponty
Maurice Marleau Ponty
Nationality:  French  

Born: March 14 1908, Rochefort,France

Occupation: Philosopher