• Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.530, Psychology Press