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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.

Henri Bergson

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
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
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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
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
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves

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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