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.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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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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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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It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.
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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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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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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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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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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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The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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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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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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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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