- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Creating
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
- Perception
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
- Matter
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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.
- Nothing
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
- Itself
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
- Leave
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In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
- Consequently
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- Nov 07, 2020
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
- Independent
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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.
- Laughter
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
- Group
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
- Life
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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.
- Attitude
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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.
- Image
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The motive power of democracy is love.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
- Division
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
- Intuition
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- Nov 07, 2020
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
- Mind
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
- Divergent
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