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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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