The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
HENRI BERGSONHomo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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