The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYThe body is our general medium for having a world.
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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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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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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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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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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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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 perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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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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Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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The body is our general medium for having a world.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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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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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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