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

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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt,...

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt,...

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...

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

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...

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty...

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty...

The motive power of democracy is love

The motive power of democracy is love

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

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

The motive power of democracy is love.

The motive power of democracy is love.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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...

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted...

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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...

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.