Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Human Quotes

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Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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 affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

De Lubac discusses an atheism which means to suppress this searching, he says, even including the problem as to what is responsible for the birth of God in human consciousness.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty