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

Henri Bergson

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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
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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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State

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

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