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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

Henri Bergson

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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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
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
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
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
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help

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