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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.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
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
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.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY

Body Oneself Perception Relation Talk
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
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
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value 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
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
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
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.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY

Color Consciousness Division Failure Recognition Separate Sight
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
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
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.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY

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