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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Henri Bergson

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
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
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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
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
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
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time

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