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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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 world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
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Himself Natural Perception State Thinking Truth World
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 world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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Natural Perception Thinking 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 flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
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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Circle Fabric Mobile See Visible World
Like 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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Language Material Surround Weave Work Writing
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
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
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
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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Criticism History Introduction Limitation Ourselves Philosophy
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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Close Destroy Instant Open Photograph Time
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World