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.
HENRI BERGSONReligion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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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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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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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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