To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.Henri Bergson
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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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.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
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