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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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
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
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
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
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

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