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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.
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Body Breathe Form Heart Life System Visible World
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
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
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
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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Color Consciousness Division Failure Recognition Separate Sight
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
We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.
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Dimension Discover Existence Natural Object World
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
Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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Existence Human Satisfaction Understand
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
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

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