Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSONThere are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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 only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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One can always reason with reason.
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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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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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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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