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The body is our general medium for having a world.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY

Body Oneself Perception Relation Talk
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
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
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
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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Art Body Interrogate Possession
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
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
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live 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
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
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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Language Material Surround Weave Work Writing
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
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
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

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