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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
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
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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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