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

"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."

"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."

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

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

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

"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."

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