I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.Henri Bergson
The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the aspects of matter on which we can lay hold our perception, which exactly measures our virtual action on things, thus limits itself to the objects which actually influence our organs and prepare our movements.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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