The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
HENRI BERGSONIf 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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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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 varying the manufacture.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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