Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
HENRI BERGSONA situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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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.
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Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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One can always reason with reason.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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