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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

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
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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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
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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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand

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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