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Quotes from The Structure of Behavior — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

1908–1961 France

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By becoming the pure subject who knows the world objectively, man ultimately realizes that absolute consciousness with respect to which the body and individual existence are no longer anything but objects; death is deprived of meaning. Reduced to the status of object of consciousness, the body could not be conceived as an intermediary between "things" and the consciousness which knows them.

The Structure of Behavior (1942)

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