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We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

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
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 Failure Recognition Separate Sight
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
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 world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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Natural Perception Thinking World
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
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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Acceptance Religion Reminder Understand
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
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End Man Meaning Rule Service Talk
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
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
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
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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Experience Goal Harmony Ourselves Understand World