“Stiftung is not enveloping thought, but open thought, not the intended and Vorhabe of an actual center, but an ‘off-center’ which will be rectified, not the positing of an end, but the positing of a style, not a frontal grasp but a lateral divergence, algae brought back from the depths.”

“Stiftung is not enveloping thought, but open thought, not the intended and Vorhabe of an actual center, but an ‘off-center’ which will be rectified, not the positing of an end, but the positing of a style, not a frontal grasp but a lateral divergence, algae brought back from the depths.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty