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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.

Henri Bergson

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
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
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
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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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
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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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State

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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