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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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 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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality

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