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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

Henri Bergson

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
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.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
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
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 varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

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