To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure..

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live..

True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I a….

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven..

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himse….

The flesh is at the heart of the world..

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or….

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art..

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anch….

I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of co….

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness..

Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move ….

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis o….

We know not through our intellect but through our experience..

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine..

The body is our general medium for having a world..

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body….

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the re….

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains ….

Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it mov….

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