It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYMontaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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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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Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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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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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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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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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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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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Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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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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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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