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.
HENRI BERGSON
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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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