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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Henri Bergson

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
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
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
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 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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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

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