My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYOur 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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The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it’s caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.
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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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Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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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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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it… If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one’s own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.
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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.
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