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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

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 varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
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
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
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

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