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

Henri Bergson

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
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
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
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
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
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
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

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