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The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.


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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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