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

Henri Bergson

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
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
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
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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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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

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

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