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I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
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Close Destroy Instant Open Photograph Time
The philosopher will ask himself if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.
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Criticism History Introduction Limitation Ourselves Philosophy
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
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium 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
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
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
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
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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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Himself Natural Perception State Thinking Truth World
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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