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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
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
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
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
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
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

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