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The motive power of democracy is love.

Henri Bergson

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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
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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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
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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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success

The motive power of democracy is love.

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