Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSONWe 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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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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 emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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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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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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