I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

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

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

The body is our general medium for having a 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.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

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 relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

Unless you are a restaurant critic... nobody cares what you had for lunch.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.