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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Henri Bergson

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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
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
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
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit

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