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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
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
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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

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