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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
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
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSON

Mystic Popular Religion Science

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

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