The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of... The body is our general medium for having a world.
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything... To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention... Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible... Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it’s caught in the fabric of the world,... Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin... We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space... We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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,... Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do...
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