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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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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. – Henri Bergson

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Freedom
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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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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. – Henri Bergson

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You never quite know whats going to strike your imagination, or something that wont going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. – Peter Shaffer

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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. – Andrew Wyeth

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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. – Epictetus

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein

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