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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual 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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard 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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation

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