Maurice Merleau-Ponty

"Existence is freedom and facticity."

"The world is what we make it through our engagement."

"Being is not presence but rather appearing."

"Understanding requires openness to the other."

"The fundamental structure of existence is being-in-the-world."

"Ambiguity is not something to be overcome but embraced."

"The meaning of our life is found in our freedom."

"Perception is always an interpretation of the world."

"The world is not what I think, but what I live through."

"To say that we live in a world is to say that we are condemned to meaning."

"The flesh is a dimension of being."

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself."

"The perceived world is not entirely independent of the perceiving subject."

"Language is not an instrument, it is a world."

"There is no view without a point of view."

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

"We must recognize the ambiguity of human existence."

"Depth is the most existential of dimensions."

"The real has to be treated as mystery that is revealed."

"Being is what calls for interpretation."

"Our experience is the starting point for philosophical inquiry."

"The child's perception is not yet complete in the adult sense."

"Ambiguity is the condition of human freedom."

"The visible world contains hidden dimensions that shape our understanding."

"To perceive is to assume that experience will unfold in familiar ways."

"Intersubjectivity is the foundation of all meaning."

"The body schema is our silent knowledge of how to be in the world."

"We are bound to others through a fundamental ambiguity of being."

"Meaning is not in things themselves but in our engagement with them."

"The painter teaches us how to see the world anew."