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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

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
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 universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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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Action Artist Expression Freedom
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life

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