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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Bergson

I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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 perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
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
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
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe

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