To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSONAn absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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