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The motive power of democracy is love.

Henri Bergson

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
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
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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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
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

The motive power of democracy is love.

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