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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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It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.
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Fortune Greatness Passion Professional
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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 body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium 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
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
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
The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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Natural Perception Thinking World
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
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
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
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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Atheist Definition Join Place Thinking Touch Word
The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
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Himself Natural Perception State Thinking Truth World
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
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value World