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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
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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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
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
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
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
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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Action Artist Expression Freedom
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

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