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Henri Bergson

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
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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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
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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Action Artist Expression Freedom
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
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
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
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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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
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

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

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