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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
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
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 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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
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

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

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