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The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
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End Man Meaning Rule Service Talk
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value World
Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
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Acceptance Religion Reminder Understand
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
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
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
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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Circle Fabric Mobile See Visible World
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
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
I discover vision, not as a ‘thinking about seeing,’ to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another’s gaze.
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Discover Expression Myself Vision World
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning 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
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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 may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk

The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.

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