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Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.

Hands, Haunts, Instrument, Moving, Object, Space
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Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.

Feelings, Giving, Machiavellian, Politician, Trying, Whole

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

Active, Bold, Gives, Giving Up, Real, Thinking

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis

According, Art, Body, Possesses, Sensate, Wish

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

Surprise, Take, Teach, Thinking, Words

True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.

Field, Historical, Phenomenology, Presents, Reflection, True
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