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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.

Henri Bergson

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.
HENRI BERGSON

Character Compensation Intelligence Man
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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 exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
HENRI BERGSON

Act Action Man Thinking

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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