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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.

Henri Bergson

The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
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
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
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
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
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

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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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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