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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
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
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 exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
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
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
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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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
Is 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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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try

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