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The motive power of democracy is love.

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
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
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
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
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love

The motive power of democracy is love.

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