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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Henri Bergson

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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
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
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
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent

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