Maurice Merleau-Ponty

"We are conscious of the world only if we are struck by the difference between the world and ourselves."

"The essence of meaning is being not in itself but rather being in-the-world."

"Language is an organ of expression."

"Ambiguity is the essential structure of existence."

"To live is to act."

"The visible world is not in itself what it appears to be."

"I am the absolute source; my existence does not come from my antecedents."

"In the experience of dialogue, there is constituted for the first time a common world."

"My freedom is not distinguished from my being."

"The body is our general medium for having a world."

"Nothing is ever completely finished."

"To transcend is to transform."

"The greatest deception is expecting perfection."

"All consciousness is consciousness of something."

"True teaching is not an oral discourse."

"Our relationship to the world is not purely cognitive."

"The meaning of a gesture cannot be calculated without reference to the situation of the person who makes it."

"Existence precedes and conditions essence."

"The world and reason do not exclude each other."

"To perceive is to render oneself present to something through the body."

"The past remains our responsibility."

"Understanding is a vocation."

"We must find a new relationship to being in itself."

"A man does not exist as a body without existing as consciousness."

"The presuppositions of perception are never explicitly stated as such."

"Our being in the world is fundamentally a matter of care."

"Philosophy is the conversion of the world into discourse."

"Time is the dimension in which living takes place."

"To understand is to grasp the essence in a contingent form."

"The world is not given me only in perception."