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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

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
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
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
A 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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality

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

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