The flesh is at the heart of the world.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYVisible 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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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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Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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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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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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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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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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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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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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Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
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The body is our general medium for having a world.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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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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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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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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