Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Work
  • Different
  • Experience

• But what will happen -- and I have seen this in previous catastrophes and hurricanes -- there is a bright spot in that new jobs do get created.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Jobs
  • Hurricanes
  • Catastrophes

• I really wanted to soak it in. Everyone is so quick to get off (of the ice), but we work so hard for this. It's nice to take two minutes to enjoy your accomplishments.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Cutting
  • Prince
  • Peasant

• Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Place
  • Labour
  • Human Family

• I do love nothing in the world so well as you – is not that strange?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Love
  • Strange

• The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Infinite

• His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Bats
  • Father`s sister
  • Belfry

• Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Value
  • Religion
  • Claims

• Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Means
  • Vulnerable
  • Victimized

• Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Hurt
  • Regret
  • Love Is

• Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Diseases
  • Malaria
  • Dengue

• The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Virtue

• Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Intellect

• We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Intellect
  • Eperience