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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Henri Bergson

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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 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

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