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.
HENRI BERGSONRealism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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