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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."

"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."

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

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

"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."

"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."

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