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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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
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
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
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
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
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning

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