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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

Henri Bergson

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
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
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
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

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