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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY

Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
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
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
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
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.
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Atheist Definition Join Place Thinking Touch Word
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
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
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
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY

Art Body Compare Object Work
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
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
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