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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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.
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Body Oneself Perception Relation Talk
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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
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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Complete Conflict Feeling Hide Politics Show
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
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End Man Meaning Rule Service Talk
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
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
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
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
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
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
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
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Language Material Surround Weave Work Writing
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful but also when it comes to happiness.
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