We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
HENRI BERGSONIn 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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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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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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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