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Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.
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Complete Conflict Feeling Hide Politics Show
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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Art Body Compare Object Work
The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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Art Body Interrogate Possession
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
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Language Material Surround Weave Work Writing
The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
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Close Destroy Instant Open Photograph Time
Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.
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Body Breathe Form Heart Life System Visible World
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
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History Meaning Name World
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance – and the body is our anchorage in the world.
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Experience Goal Harmony Ourselves Understand World
Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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Existence Human Satisfaction Understand
Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.
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Body Instrument Move Object Space
Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.
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Determination Open Start World
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful but also when it comes to happiness.
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Alone Happiness People
We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.
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Dimension Discover Existence Natural Object World