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.
HENRI BERGSONIn 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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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 urging the manufacture.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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