Maurice Merleau-Ponty

"The function is to reduce all phenomena which bear witness to the union of subject and world, putting in their place the clear idea of the object as in itself and of the subject as pure consciousness.…"

"Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it."

"Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, w…"

"Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an…"

"It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession."

"an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis"

"The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.'"

"By becoming the pure subject who knows the world objectively, man ultimately realizes that absolute consciousness with respect to which the body and individual existence are no longer anything but obj…"