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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Bergson

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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
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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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
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
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking

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