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.
HENRI BERGSONIn 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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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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One can always reason with reason.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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