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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Henri Bergson

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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

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