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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Henri Bergson

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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
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
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
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
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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

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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