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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

Henri Bergson

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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
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

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

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