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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.

Henri Bergson

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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 urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man

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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