I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
HENRI BERGSONIs it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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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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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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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