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Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
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
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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
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
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
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
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
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
Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.
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Body Breathe Form Heart Life System Visible 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
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word