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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - [Seeing] To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - [Change] Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. - Creative Evolution (ch. I) [Life] The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. - Creative Evolution (ch. I) [Past] Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. - Creative Evolution (ch. I) [Time] 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. - Creative Evolution (ch. II) [Life] 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 urging the manufacture. - Creative Evolution (ch. II) [Intellect] Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. - Creative Evolution (ch. II) [Intellect]
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