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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

Henri Bergson

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
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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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
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

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