To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSONIs 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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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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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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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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