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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Henri Bergson

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
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
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
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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

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