The motive power of democracy is love.

Quote by Henri Bergson

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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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

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

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

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

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

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to...

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of...

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which...

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but...

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but...

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin...

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin...

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense...

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense...

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

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

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to...

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to...

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is...

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is...

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter...

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter...

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The...

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The...

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I...

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I...