An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSONA 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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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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