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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity

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