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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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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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It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one to have his passion as a profession.
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The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
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Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
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Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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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.
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Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
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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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Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.
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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.
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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.
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Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
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De Lubac discusses an atheism which means to suppress this searching, he says, even including the problem as to what is responsible for the birth of God in human consciousness.
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I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.
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Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
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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.
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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.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
March 14, 1908
Died:
May 3, 1961
(aged 53)
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