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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Henri Bergson

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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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
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
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
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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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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