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The motive power of democracy is love.

Henri Bergson

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
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
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
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
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
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.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
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

The motive power of democracy is love.

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