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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

Henri Bergson

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle

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