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

Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
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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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need

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