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.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
More Maurice Merleau Ponty Quotes
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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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The body is our general medium for having a 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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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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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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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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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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It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.
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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 live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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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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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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