Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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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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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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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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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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