We are towards/of/in the world.

Nous sommes au monde.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

French phenomenologist (1908-1961). Friend and rival of Sartre, he turned Husserlian phenomenology toward a philosophy of the body. His Phenomenology of Perception (1945) argued we inhabit the world through the body.

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Source: Phénoménologie de la perception (1945), Avant-proposVerified

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Other Quotes

The body is our general medium for having a world.

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

True philosophy consists in relearning to see the world.

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