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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Henri Bergson

The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
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 urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action Artist Expression Freedom
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation

To 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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To 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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