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Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept 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
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
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
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Himself Natural Perception State Thinking Truth World
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.
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Definition Function Imagination Man Object Reality Rich
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
The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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Natural Perception Thinking World
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
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
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
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
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove