The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSONTo perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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