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It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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 world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
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
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
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Art Existence Expression Philosophy Reflection Truth World
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value World
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
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
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
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
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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