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

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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 child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful but also when it comes to happiness.
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Alone Happiness People
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
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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Determination Open Start World
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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Body Breathe Form Heart Life System Visible World
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
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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End Man Meaning Rule Service Talk
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 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