Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSONIf reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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