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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

One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
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

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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