My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.


Phenomenology of Perception (ed. Psychology Press, 2002) - ISBN: 9780415278416

Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it,...

My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it,...

My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it,...

My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it,...