It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
HENRI BERGSONA 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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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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