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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

Henri Bergson

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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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
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
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
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
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 motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
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
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
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time

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