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Henri Bergson

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action Artist Expression Freedom
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
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.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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 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
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason

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