Merleau Ponty – man is never an unconditioned freedom
Man is a historical idea and not a natural species. […] All that we are, we are on the basis of a de facto situation which we appropriate to ourselves and which we ceaselessly transform by a sort of escape which is never an unconditioned freedom.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from “The Phenomenology of Perception” (via remembranceof)