Maurice Merleau-Ponty

"Being and nothingness are ultimately indistinguishable."

"We cannot speak about the absolute without speaking about it in relative terms."

"The question is our very being."

"Existence is an empire of freedom and of contingency."

"Consciousness has no windows; it is wholly intentional."

"The visible is always backed by the invisible."

"Our incarnate being is a necessary condition of consciousness."

"The world is my intentional object."

"To be human is to be in question."

"Freedom is being your possibilities."

"The body is not an object to be known; it is our ground of knowing."

"Love is the recognition of another freedom."

"We are separated from absolute knowledge by a fundamental opacity."

"History is the medium of understanding."

"The visible world and the invisible world are intertwined."

"Expression is never adequacy to thought."

"The lived world is the foundation of all knowledge."

"Our perception is our access to truth."

"Being is ambiguous and is expressed in multiple ways."

"We are always already in the world before any reflection."

"Language creates distance from what it names."

"Culture is the acquisition of meaning."

"The self is not a given but a task."

"Our understanding is always perspectival."

"Being reveals itself through our engagement with the world."

"The artwork is an opening to the world."

"We are responsible for the meaning we make."

"Truth emerges in the dialogue between self and world."

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something."

"The body is the medium of our world."