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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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 urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
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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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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