Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
HENRI BERGSONI believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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