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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

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
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 urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
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
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
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
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

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

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