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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.

Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
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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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
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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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning

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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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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