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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

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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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
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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Act Meaning Perception Talk
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
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
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return

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