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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 Ponty

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
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
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
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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History Meaning Name World
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
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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Definition Function Imagination Man Object Reality Rich
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
The philosopher will ask himself if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.
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Criticism History Introduction Limitation Ourselves Philosophy
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
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
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World