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

Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
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
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
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
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSON

Intellectual Necessary Reality
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection

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