Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
Quotes to Explore
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Silence is also conversation.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
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I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
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I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
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All I know is the dark, the night underground. And that’s all there really is. That’s all there is to know, in the end. The silence, and the dark. You know everything, wizard. But I know one thing - the one true thing!
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Silence is a fence around wisdom.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.
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I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.
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If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.
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I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.
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I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
