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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

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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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
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
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
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
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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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
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
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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

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