To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYMontaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
More Maurice Merleau Ponty Quotes
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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.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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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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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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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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Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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The body is our general medium for having a world.
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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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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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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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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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