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Henri Bergson

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
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
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

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