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• True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and…
• The flesh is at the heart of the world.
• The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is…
• The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
• I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness…
• To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
• Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view…
• It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
• Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The…
• Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of…
• I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
• The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function…

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