Coherent Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

““...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...””

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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 whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking…

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“The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable because phenomenology’s…

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We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

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“Man is hidden, well hidden, & this time we must make no mistake about it: this does not mean that he is there beneath…

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“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one another and demand to live, and confirm the powerful in the wisdom which the immensity of the risks and the consciousness of their own disorder had given them. The world is more present to itself in…

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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

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“There are several ways for a body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.”

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“We do not have the right to level out all experience into a single world.”

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“The world and reason are not problems; and though we might call them mysterious, this mystery is essential to them, there can be no…

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“Memory is the irruption of other things in us.”

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“Expression is like a step taken in the fog--no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.”

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“Any commemoration is also a betrayal.”

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I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

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This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the…

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The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty'…

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