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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.

Henri Bergson

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.

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