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The vital spirit. L'élan vital
One can always reason with reason.
The motive power of democracy is love
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
The motive power of democracy is love.
To ease another's burden, help to carry it.
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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.