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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Henri Bergson

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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
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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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol

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