To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSON
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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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