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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

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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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 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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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight

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

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