We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe flesh is at the heart of the world.
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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it’s caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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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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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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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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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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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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The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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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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