It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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