Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
HENRI BERGSONWhen 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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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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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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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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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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 varying the manufacture.
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One can always reason with reason.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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