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.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe 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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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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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 flesh is at the heart of the world.
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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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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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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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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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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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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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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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The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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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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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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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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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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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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It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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The body is our general medium for having a world.
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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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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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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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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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