The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYLike 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.
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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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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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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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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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Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human 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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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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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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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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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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Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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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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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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