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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

Henri Bergson

One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself 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
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
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
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
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
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

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