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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value World
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
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
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
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
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
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
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
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
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
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
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning 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
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