The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYIt is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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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.
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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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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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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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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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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.
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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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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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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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The body is our general medium for having a world.
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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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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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