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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
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
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 universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
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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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality

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