The Visible and the Revealed Quotes

“To understand is ultimately to see. To speak is to speak in order to render visible, thus to speak in order to see. Otherwise, to speak means nothing. But how are we to see? How does the statement make itself seen, taking on the status of a phenomenon? Husserl will respond more explicitly to this second question in the opening of the /deas of 1913, where he posits the “principle of principles,” which states “that every originarily giving intuition is a source of right for cognition, that everything that offers itself [sich darbietet] to us in originary ‘intuition’ (so to speak, in its fleshly actuality) must be received exactly as it gives itself out to be [als was es sich (da) gibt].”'* To be realized as a phenomenon means to be given in an actuality without reserve, a “fleshly [/esbhaft] actuality.”
For a statement to appear phenomenally amounts to its assuming flesh; the phenomenon shows the flesh of the discourse. How does a statement
obtain this phenomenal flesh? Through intuition (Anschaung or Intuition, equally). One intuition of whatever kind is sufficient for the phenomenon, the flesh of the discourse, to occur. Indeed, intuition operates an absolutely indisputable hold and an ultimate cognition, since only another intuition can contradict a first intuition, so that in the final instance an intuition always remains. Intuition accomplishes the most fleshly acts of cognition. The flesh of the discourse appears to the flesh of the mind—the phenomenon to intuition. Phenomenology calls this encounter a givenness [donation]: intuition gives the phenomenon, the phenomenon gives itself through intuition. To be sure, this givenness can always be examined, can always be authenticated or not, can always admit limits—but it can never be questioned or denied, except by the authority of another intuitive givenness. The universal validity of the “principle of principles” confirms this.”
― Jean-Luc Marion, The Visible and the Revealed

“But for all that, it is not certain that by passing from Being to ethics (or to the body’s flesh) phenomenology has made sufficient progress in the direction of the possibility of revelation, of possibility as revelation. In any case, possibility actually submits straightaway to the restriction of a horizon. Any horizon that determines the scene of incoming phenomena in a priori fashion delimits the possible, hence limits (or forbids) revelation.”
― Jean-Luc Marion, The Visible and the Revealed