To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
HENRI BERGSON
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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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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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.
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