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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson

Is 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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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
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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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
HENRI BERGSON

Act Action Man Thinking

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