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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
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 child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
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
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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Alone Happiness People
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
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
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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Determination Open Start 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
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
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
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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Art Existence Expression Philosophy Reflection Truth 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 flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World