Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Quote by Henri Bergson

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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

The motive power of democracy is love

The motive power of democracy is love

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but...

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but...

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is...

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is...

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

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

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of...

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority...

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority...

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and...

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and...

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which...

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which...

The motive power of democracy is love.

The motive power of democracy is love.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to...

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...