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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Henri Bergson

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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
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
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

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