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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
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
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
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
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
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
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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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