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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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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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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

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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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The motive power of democracy is love.

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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 major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 18th, 1859

Died: January 4th, 1941

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