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Henri Bergson

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy

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