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Quote by Henri Bergson
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for y

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. – Henri Bergson

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We regard intelligence as mans main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. – Henri Bergson

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Intelligence
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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. – Henri Bergson

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

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We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Were living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because its run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. – Deepak Chopra

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The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business. – Thomas Kinkade

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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination. – Lionel Stander

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