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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Henri Bergson

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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word

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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