If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
HENRI BERGSONWhen 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.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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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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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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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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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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