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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

Henri Bergson

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
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
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
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 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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
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

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