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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

Henri Bergson

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
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.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

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