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

Henri Bergson

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work

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

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