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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

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
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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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking

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.

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