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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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 our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
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
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
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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Definition Function Imagination Man Object Reality Rich
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
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
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
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
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
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
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