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.
HENRI BERGSONThe movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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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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Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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