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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

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
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
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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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter 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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself

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