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

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Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.169, Psychology Press

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#Body Quotes #World Quotes #Mediums Quotes

“I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.”
“We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict thingsâ€”and we arenâ€™t very good at it.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.19, Penguin
“We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.”
“Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.”

Source : J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.141, Penguin
“In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.”
“Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.”
“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole”
“What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?”

Source : Jonathan Lethem (2004). “The Fortress of Solitude”, p.490, Vintage

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