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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

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
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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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
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
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
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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Act Meaning Perception Talk
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves

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

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