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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

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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
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
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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

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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