Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Silence, Woven, Tissues

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1973). “The Prose of the World”, p.46, Northwestern University Press

• Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Men, Views, Long

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.214, Psychology Press

• Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Moving, Thinking, Self

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Baldwin (2004). “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings”, p.163, Psychology Press

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