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Own Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- 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,…
- 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…
- The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in…
- 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…
- My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I…
- My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
- Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect…
- All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...]…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov