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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Henri Bergson

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
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
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
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man 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 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
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest

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