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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Henri Bergson

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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
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
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
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
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process

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