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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

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
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?
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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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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Action Artist Expression Freedom
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
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
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 is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent

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