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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Henri Bergson

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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe

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