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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Henri Bergson

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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality

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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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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