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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

Henri Bergson

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
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
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 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
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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

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