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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
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
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
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
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need

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