Genius Is That Which Forces The Inertia

When We Make The Cerebral State The Beginning Of An Action, And In No Sense The Condition Of A Perception, We Place The Perceived Images Of Things Outside The Image Of Our Body, And Thus Replace Perception Within The Things Themselves.

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 Varying The Manufacture.

All The Translations Of A Poem In All Possible Languages May Add Nuance To Nuance And, By A Kind Of Mutual Retouching, By Correcting One Another, May Give An Increasingly Faithful Picture Of The Poem They Translate, Yet They Will Never Give The Inner Meaning Of The Original.

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.

Knowledge, In So Far As It Is Directed To Practical Matters, Has Only To Enumerate The Principal Possible Attitudes Of The Thing Towards Us, As Well As Our Best Possible Attitude Towards It. Therein Lies The Ordinary Function Of Ready-made Concepts, Those Stations With Which We Mark Out The Path Of Becoming. But To Seek To Penetrate With Them Into The Inmost Nature Of Things, Is To Apply To The Mobility Of The Real A Method Created In Order To Give Stationary Points Of Observation On It.