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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

Henri Bergson

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
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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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
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
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
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
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
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe

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