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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

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
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
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 urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
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
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
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
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom

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

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