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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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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
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"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
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"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."
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"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."
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"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
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"You have to be smart to get what you want."
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"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
Intuition

"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
Intellect

"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
Mind

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

"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."
Events

"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."
Thought

"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."
Intention

"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it."
Influence

"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom."
Freedom

"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
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