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.

Quote by Henri Bergson

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

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

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

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...

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter...

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter...

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

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.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns...

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns...

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt,...

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt,...