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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

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
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 motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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 urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
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
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound

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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