To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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