Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes about Perception

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I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Perception, Body, Speak

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.173, Routledge

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Men, Perception, Doe

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.12, Psychology Press