Phenomenology that focuses itself on the wonder of incessantly emerging phenomena to consciousness paradoxically has its history now. The present discussion is a critical reflection of the historically oriented study of phenomenology. In contrast to it, the too privately descriptive way in doing phenomenology is the other extreme in the phenomenological circle, because it usually lacks the profundity and overwhelming energy of philosophizing that we can experience by classical philosophers. With reference to Bernhard Waldenfels’ reception of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of human body and time, I argue that phenomenology must sustain itself through a constant meditation on the subtle relationship between philosophy (what is phenomenal) and the history of philosophy (what is historical).