Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSONWhen 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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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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