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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Creative Evolution (1907)
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
Creative Evolution (1907)
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
Creative Evolution (1907)
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 (1907)
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 (1907)
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.
Creative Evolution (1907)