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Henri Bergson

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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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity

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