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

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value 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
Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it’s caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.
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Circle Fabric Mobile See Visible World
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
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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Body Breathe Form Heart Life System Visible World
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
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.
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Body Instrument Move Object Space
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
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

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