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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

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
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
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
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 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
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking

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