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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Henri Bergson

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
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary 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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural

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