The flesh is at the heart of the world.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYI 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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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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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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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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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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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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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 child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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The body is our general medium for having a world.
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The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.
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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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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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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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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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