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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.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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 may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
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
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
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
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
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
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
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 body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
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
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 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
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
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World