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 co…

- Maurice Merleau-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 anch…

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The body is our general medium for having a world.

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis o…

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move …

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty