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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Henri Bergson

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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
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
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural

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