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

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action Artist Expression Freedom
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
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
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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 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 varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
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
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

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