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Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes: My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
         

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.


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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.




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.

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.



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

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



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

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.

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





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What we do, our choices, that's what defines us.




In a gentle way, you can shake the world

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Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.



A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.



When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.



I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.



We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.



Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.



Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.




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