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.
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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Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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