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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.

Henri Bergson

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.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
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.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process

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