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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.

Henri Bergson

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 seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action Artist Expression Freedom
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent

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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