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The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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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
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 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
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
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
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 essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
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
It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.
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Fortune Greatness Passion Professional
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 the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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Natural Perception Thinking World

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