Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
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.Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
Jack Kerouac -
Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
Valentina Zelyaeva -
Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
Dan Pink -
Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
Hafez -
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams -
'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
Ted Sarandos
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You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
Frank Zappa -
One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?
Lou Holtz -
When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
Leslie Marmon Silko -
When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
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The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos -
Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care.
Napoleon Hill -
She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
Chuck Klosterman -
I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens
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Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
Elisabeth Elliot -
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.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty