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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

Henri Bergson

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
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
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
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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 varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
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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Action Artist Expression Freedom
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help

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