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

Henri Bergson

I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
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
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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 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
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
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
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
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle

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