Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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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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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and you have to forgive yourself for putting on a few pounds.
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People talk about body cleanses like there's no tomorrow - what about apartment cleanses?
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I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, keep singing and, hopefully, move to L.A.
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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.
