When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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