Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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• I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Day

• When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

  

  Ed Koch
  • City
  • Proud
  • Foundation

• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Up
  • Ideas

• I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

  

  Halsey
  • Existence

• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • She
  • News

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Family
  • Way
  • Existence

• It's actually very important to put a little foundation up into your hairline, or else it looks like your face is not yours - like someone just Photoshopped it on!

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Important
  • Face

• I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Energy
  • Foundation
  • Task

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Different
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Support
  • Democracy
  • Existence

• I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Working

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• From wonder into wonder existence opens.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wonder
  • Existence
  • Opens

• I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Kind

• My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

  

  J. R. Bourne
  • She
  • Years
  • Healthy

• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Why
  • Existence
  • Behavior

• If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.

  

  Arius
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Substance

• Any way that you can get the end result is valid, whatever it takes.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Whatever It Takes

• I want to see young people who as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as their young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!

  

  Becky Fischer
  • Truth
  • Gospel
  • Islam

• Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Possession
  • Psychedelic

• Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.

  

  Epictetus
  • Opinions
  • Habits
  • Associate

• The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Existence
  • Foundation
  • Rationality