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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation

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