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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.

Henri Bergson

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
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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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest

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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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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