We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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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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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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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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.
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Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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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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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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Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
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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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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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We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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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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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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