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 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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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