It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
HENRI BERGSONTo ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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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 urging the manufacture.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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