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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

Henri Bergson

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 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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
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
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
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
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
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need

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