Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of 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 urging the manufacture.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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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 would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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One can always reason with reason.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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