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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 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
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
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
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
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
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
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON

Day Language Philosophy

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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