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Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty In Praise of Philosophy (1963)

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Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.”

In Praise of Philosophy (1963)

What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.

In Praise of Philosophy (1963)

The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.'

Phenomenology of Perception (1945)

Language transcends us and yet, we speak.

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