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.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYWe should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
More Maurice Merleau Ponty Quotes
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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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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 body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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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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The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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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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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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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 world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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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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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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