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.
HENRI BERGSONOnly those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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.
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