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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
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Art 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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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
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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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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