The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSONIntuition 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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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