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.
HENRI BERGSONIn 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 varying the manufacture.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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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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