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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized…
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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…
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our…
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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…
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Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
— Henry Adams
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Poetry contains nothing haphazard.
— William Empson
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Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible…
— Immanuel Kant
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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
— J C Ryle
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The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is…
— Milan Kundera
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I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred…
— Edvard Munch
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The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
— Henri Bergson
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If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to…
— William James
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