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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
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
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
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
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
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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Complete Conflict Feeling Hide Politics Show
The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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Natural Perception Thinking World
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
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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Art Existence Expression Philosophy Reflection Truth World
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves