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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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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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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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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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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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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Object
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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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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Meaning Name
The flesh is at the heart of the world.

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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.

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Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.
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Move Object
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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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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Goal
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.

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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.
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Color Consciousness Division Recognition
Language transcends us and yet we speak.

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Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Transcend
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

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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 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 Object
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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Form System Visible
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Word
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Obscure
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial
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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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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