Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
HENRI BERGSONThe movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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 movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in 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 present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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