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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.
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Dimension Discover Existence Natural Object World
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
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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Body Oneself Perception Relation Talk
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
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
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
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
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
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
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
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
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value World
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure