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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
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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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
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
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
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
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

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

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