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

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve 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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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

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

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