Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Impact

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Dad
  • Secret
  • Fan

• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • See
  • Silly

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Wind

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Live
  • Stage
  • Build

• I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Great
  • Family
  • Home

• Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • Stand

• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Challenge
  • Tree

• To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • People
  • Kids
  • American

• I'm tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying 'no' to people I like.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • People
  • Time
  • Bad

• I've experienced all the food and restaurants in New Orleans. I've been doing a bit of touristing when I have the day off, just walking in the French Quarter. To me, it's very, very surprising how people are so friendly. But no, it's very different from Paris.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • People
  • Different
  • Food

• Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Useful