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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.
Henri Bergson
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Henri Bergson
Age: 81 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 18
Died: 1941
Died: January 4
Philosopher
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Sociologist
Paris
France
Henri-Louis Bergson
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
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The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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