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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Henri Bergson

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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
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
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
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
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
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
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
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

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

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