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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

Henri Bergson

The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
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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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
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.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand

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