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Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful but also when it comes to happiness.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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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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Dimension Discover Existence Natural Object 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
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 world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
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
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
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance – and the body is our anchorage in the world.
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Experience Goal Harmony Ourselves Understand World
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value World
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
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
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
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
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

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