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Maurice Merleau-Ponty has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is…
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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness…
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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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…
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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The…
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Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of…
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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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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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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when…
— Nelson Goodman
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Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost…
— Joseph Addison
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If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely…
— Richard Heinberg
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We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment…
— Ben Chifley
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We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
— Nelson Goodman
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We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan.
— Shinzo Abe
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We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is…
— August Bebel
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It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at…
— Julian Casablancas
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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
— Andre Gide
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It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are…
— Dario Fo
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To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance -…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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