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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.

Henri Bergson

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.
HENRI BERGSON

Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
HENRI BERGSON

Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
HENRI BERGSON

Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON

Day Language Philosophy
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
HENRI BERGSON

Guard Laughter Ourselves
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy

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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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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