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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

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
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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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
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
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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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
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
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
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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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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
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
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
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
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 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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity

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