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

Henri Bergson

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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
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
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
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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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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

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