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Maurice Merleau Ponty

The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
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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Color Consciousness Division Failure Recognition Separate Sight
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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End Man Meaning Rule Service Talk
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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Acceptance Religion Reminder Understand
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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Body Oneself Perception Relation Talk
Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.
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Atheist Definition Join Place Thinking Touch Word
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
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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Art Existence Expression Philosophy Reflection Truth World
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
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
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
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue

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