Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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

• The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Order, Two, Doe

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.218, Routledge

• Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not "a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1968). “In Praise of Philosophy”

• Language transcends us and yet we speak.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Phenomenology, Language, Speak

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

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

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  May, Language, Speak

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