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I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it… If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one’s own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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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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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Discover Expression Myself Vision World
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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Experience Goal Harmony Ourselves Understand World
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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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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The body is our general medium for having a world.
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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live 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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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.
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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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The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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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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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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