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I discover vision, not as a ‘thinking about seeing,’ to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another’s gaze.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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 flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart 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
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
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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Circle Fabric Mobile See Visible 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
The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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Art Body Interrogate Possession
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 perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value 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
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
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
I discover vision, not as a ‘thinking about seeing,’ to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another’s gaze.
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Discover Expression Myself Vision World
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