The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
HENRI BERGSONArt has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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One can always reason with reason.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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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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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 urging the manufacture.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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