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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

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
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
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
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
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
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle

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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