Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Facts are often complicated.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.