Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
HENRI BERGSONIs 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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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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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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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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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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One can always reason with reason.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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