The world is not what I think, but what I live through.
Le monde n'est pas ce que je pense, mais ce que je vis.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
French phenomenologist (1908-1961). Friend and rival of Sartre, he turned Husserlian phenomenology toward a philosophy of the body. His Phenomenology of Perception (1945) argued we inhabit the world through the body.
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