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Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes about Language

All Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes Art Consciousness Language quotes Perception Philosophy Reflection Silence
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty
May, Language, Speak

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology, Language, Speak
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.456, Routledge

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 Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology, Sides, Language
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.82, Northwestern University Press

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