There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

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

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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