The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
HENRI BERGSONA 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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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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 drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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