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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

Henri Bergson

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
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
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
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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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
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 is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality

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