The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
HENRI BERGSONHomo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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