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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

~Henri Bergson

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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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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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

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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.

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

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

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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

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In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 18th, 1859

Died: January 4th, 1941

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